TFR is over. But check out TFR's owner new project for this year
Willa 2010
www.willapolis.blogspot.com


WILLA is the new thematic party run by Gallermic, the creator of TFR and Narziß, two regular events that grew into an unparalleled mediatic tour de force inside of the world of fashion and art, due to an exuberant visual and intellectual attack against mainstream culture in the Japanese society and in the globalized world. Taking into account this background, Willa is the ultimate sophisticated scenario to present Gallermic’s authentic reflections about life, the world, the human being, the good and the evil, the culture, the art scene, and most of all an excuse to show Galle’s exuberant ability to love. The objective of the party is to generate love and communication through a universal symbolism that reaches everybody’s heart. As Galle declares: “Willa is a party for the good flowers”.

日本語\\\\WILLA は、ファッションとアートの世界に偉大な功績を残した二つのパーティー、TFRとNarzißの創設者、Gallermicによる新しいパーティーである。日本社会とグローバライズ化された世界の主流のカルチャーに対する、圧倒的な視覚体験と知性による反撃を意図して開催されて来た。こうした背景を鑑み、WILLAは、Gallermicにとっての日常、世界、人類、善と悪、カルチャー、アートシーン、そしてとりわけGalleの愛についての表象を、究極に洗練された物語として送り届ける。このパーティーの目的は、すべての人々の心に届く普遍的な象徴を通して、愛とコミュニケーションを慈しみ、育むことにある。Galleの言葉を借りれば、「WILLAは善き花々へのパーティーである」。

Ciao For Now. And Deep Throat To You All!
↓↓↓Narziß Final 12/12↓↓↓

www.narzib-memorimento.blogspot.com/...
12/12 Next Narziß is The Last Narziß 12/12
↓↓↓Ciao For Now. And Deep Throat To You All!↓↓↓

~> Dec 12 (fri) 10P Narziß Celebrating *Ciao For Now. And Deep Throat to You All!* at Trump Room, Shibuya.

Next Narziß is the last Narziß, our last party: an erotic fantastic farewell. We are saying bye-bye after 21 parties: it's like the magical 7 x 3, the number of the perfection by excellence and of the individuality according to the numerology. For us is inhuman and perfect: like a triangle. For how extraordinary have We been all this time, after all... It’s arousing: Ciao for now. And deep throat to you all!

P.s. We don't want to be uncouth (but we want to be called uncouth), BUT this is the last party, the last photos, and the last chance to represent your groovy self... and there is NO turning back!
FIN



↓↓↓Narziß 11.29↓↓↓

A socialite preview from last Narziß celebrating "Dame With Eggs". Among the guests were French writer Isabelle Nobouta, Yoshiko Kris-Webb and Martin Webb, performer Lauren Levitt as Cotton Bale, Trippple Nippples' Qrea, photographer Zoren Gold (MiZo), Dolomites' Stefanko Balkano, musician Allon Beausoleil, Niche's Jesus Salinas. Music selected by Qrea, allon, Stefanko and TFR. All the photos soon on www.narzib-memorimento.blogspot.com/...
↓↓↓Narziß 11.21↓↓↓

A socialite preview from last Narziß celebrating "Netochka Nezvanova And The Master Of None". Among the guests were writer Ryosuke Handa, legendary drag queen Vivienne Sato, Swedish designer Patrik Soderstam, Trippple Nippples' Qrea, New York's performer Kyoko, Uburoi's designer Mitsue Iwata, Gallery Naruyama's Jason, Niche's Jesus Salinas, Gimme Um's Pierre and NarziB's image Sono. Music selected by Mc Carrabeener, Jesus and TFR. All the photos soon on www.narzib-memorimento.blogspot.com/...
↓↓↓Narziß 11.8↓↓↓

A socialite preview from last Narziß celebrating "The Innuendo Of La Maja Desnuda" and the host Gallermic's birthday. Among the guests were Martin Webb & Yohiko Kris-Webb, musician Allon Beausoleil, legendary drag queen Vivienne Sato, photographer duo Minori & Zoren (MiZo), Trippple Nippples' Qrea, New York's performer Kyoko, M-Flo's singer Verbal, Chanel Japan's Nicolas Lefeuvre, Uburoi's designer Mitsue Iwata, curators Kiku Kudo & Ishiguro, Gallery Naruyama's Jason, French writer Isabelle Nobouta, Gimme Um's Pierre, Dazed&Confused's Sakiko, Vogue Hommes' Emi, Sister's Fuyuri, Rereremojojo, Shima's Sachiko and NarziB's image Sono. Music selected by Mademoiselle Yulia, Zoren, Cooldisco'1drink' and TFR. All the photos soon on www.narzib-memorimento.blogspot.com/...
TFR Vol."HALLOWEEN HORROR VACUI"
↓↓↓HAPPY HALLOWEEN↓↓↓
More details and the complete party report on http://thefashionramone.blogspot.com/2008/11/tfr-volhalloween-horror-vacui.html (Or scroll down...)




↓↓↓TFR in DAZED&CONFUSED JAPAN↓↓↓
インタービュー日本語
Interview in Enlgish:
DAZED: Could you tell me about the party that you are organizing right now? (The name of the party / When did you start having it? / How often are you having it? Etc… Give me the details!)
TFR: The name of the party is NarziB. Basically, NarziB is held every other week at Tokyo's most stylish spaces. We started the party from March 8th 2008.

DAZED: After establishing the party "TFR", you started having another party called "NarziB", what are the conceptual differences between those two? Also, what are the unite concepts?
TFR: TFR is a web magazine critiquing fashion, art and club culture in Tokyo. What differentiates TFR from other media is that we clarify our position and criteria on the issues we cover. The party we organized under the name of TFR was supposed to be the manifestation of our opinion. Therefore, we attempted to represent it through our fashion, the title of each party, flyer and everything. Basically, the concept of TFR parties were rather political and aggressive (ex. anti-globalization). We believe that TFR is something like a visual guerrilla trying to attack the mainstream culture. On the other hand, NarziB is a side project of TFR. Compared with TFR, NarziB doesn't necessarily intend to represent an opinion. It is merely for fun and networking. To us, there seemed like in Tokyo the so-called "community" is virtually non-existent. We want NarziB to be a cultural community for beautiful and individual people. We don't play loud music in NarziB. We want our guests to talk and know each other. NarziB is not fashion-oriented. A wide variety of people with different background are welcomed. As a matter of fact, our guests range from cultural figures like a film actor and an art curator to bohemian homeless. At the same time, NarziB is devoted to beauty. We have dress code for each party and the poor-dressed will not be admitted.



DAZED: Who writes the manifest for the parties?
TFR: Gallermic Mabuse

DAZED: How do you select DJs? Do you have a guideline for it?
TFR: We think there is a ridiculous overvaluation of the DJ nowadays. Specially in Tokyo, the Dj culture has reach the limit of idolatry, to become a Dj is the last burst of the ambition of the club kids. But why? It is like for Japanese there wouldnt be other way to be a star. And we consider that Dj ambition a misery of personality, lack of talent, and the worst tragedy of the parties along with Rave. Therefore, We are not music oriented. We want our visitors to get excited by interaction with beautiful people, to create community, icons and gossips. We rather select our guest Dj's by their cultural background and their beauty, and we called them the oldfashioned way: "selectors". Sometimes we dont even know who is gonna dj next party, we just improvised. Nevertheless, our music selection is rich. A wide range of classical, jazz, gypsy, global grooves, house, auld lang syne and cinephiliac music.

DAZED:What was the start of taking party snaps?
TFR: Just recording our memories.

DAZED: What/which kind of moment would you like to capture when you take photos?
TFR: Whenever as long as the subject is beautiful.

DAZED: What do you think about Tokyo party scene? How do you like to be placed in?
TFR: We don't really know what kind of parties are going on in Tokyo. We don't want to take ourselves within the context of Tokyo or anywhere on the earth. We prefer being regarded as a metaphysical concept without being restricted by biased idea, the name of a city or a country would possibly give.

DAZED: Could you tell me about the fashion style of the TFR guests? Do you have a special dress code?
TFR: Dress code = Individuality. Nothing is more important.



DAZED: Tell me about the concept of the exhibition you had this year, "POST NO FUTURE" at hiromiyoshii gallery.
TFR: Fashion is hentai. We can not help the association between something as superficial and hedonistic as fashion and the mere sexual pleasure full stop. Therefore, for us, a fashion personae who is not a hentai, it is an impostor, a traitor, an alienated puritan in disguise following trends who might just finish his days without a notion of personal style nor fashion itself. Fashion can be zoophiliac, necrophiliac, paediophiliac, dendrophiliac...all the paraphilias. And this can sound as obscene as fascinating, but most of all we are just trying to give an idea of the precariety of fashion these days. We spread fashion in all senses, and are here only to encourage creativity in personal hentalism.

DAZED: Do you have any plans to start up a new project?
TFR: Travel report by TFR's half Naokoula who is in a world round trip right now. And UBUROI, a fashion label for people who likes concepts like NarziB.


Thanks Dazed&Confused

↓↓↓TFR On The World-Round Trip↓↓↓
TFR's half Naokoula is in the middle of the world-round trip. She started writing about her experience on TFR...

english\\\\What is recorded here is not necessarily our experience. It can be an absolute fiction all made up in our head, or as a matter of possibility, something we MIGHT have experienced, or perhaps something we DID experience but in some other place or time. We have two kinds of journeys at the same time: the outward and inward. Our outward journey is governed by the clock and the budget, but inward one ignores the boundaries of place and time. The journey is not linear.It is always back and forth. And it is what we want to record, leaving us free from the time and the physical distance. Here, we deny the calender. We deny the map... (To read more, scroll down)

japanese\\\\ここに書かれていることは、私たちが実際に体験した出来事かもしれないし、もしかしたらすべて私たちの頭の中だけで作り上げられた完全なフィクションかもしれない。もしくは、可能性の問題で、体験しなかったけれども、体験した「かも」しれない出来事、また、私たちが体験したことだけれど、どこか違う場所で違う時間に体験した出来事かもしれない。私たちは、同時に2種類の旅をしている。身体的な旅が1つ。もう一つは精神的な旅。そしてその旅は、直線じゃない。そういう形の旅は、いつも行ったり来たりを繰り返す。そんな時間軸や物理的な距離に捉われない旅を私たちは記録したいと思っている。私たちは、カレンダーを否定する。私たちは、地図を否定する... (To read more, scroll down)

español\\\\Lo que grabamos aqui no es necesariamente nuestra experiencia. Puede ser una ficcion absoluta completamente inventada en nuestra cabeza, o una cuestion de posibilidad, algo que PUDO habernos pasado, o tal vez algo que SI experimentamos pero en algun otro tiempo o espacio. Nosotros tenemos dos tipos de viaje al mismo tiempo: exterior e interior. Nuestro viaje exterior esta gobernado por el reloj y el presupuesto, pero el interior ignora los limites del tiempo y el lugar. El viaje no es lineal. Es siempre de ida y vuelta. Y es lo que queremos grabar, dejandonos libres del tiempo y de la distancia fisica. Aqi, nosotros negamos el calendario. Nosotros negamos el mapa... (To read more, scroll down)



↓↓↓TFR In V Magazine ↓↓↓
This is how New York's famous V Magazine presents TFR in V53 index ~> "Underworld: If there’s any way Tokyo club kids could get any crazier, send us picture evidence". To top it all off, TFR is featured along with Isablle Adjani, Hunter S. Thompson et Dennis Hopper..FEAR AND LOATHING!!! Now on sale in Tokyo at Tower Records, Aoyama Book Center et Tutaya Roopongi Hills. www.vmagazine.com



Thanks V

↓↓↓POST NO FUTURE↓↓↓
english\\\\ Apart from the off-upon sadomasochistic clothing, what else has been done in order to represent the fetishism of human beings or, going beyond, the universe of sexual deviations? [CHECK OUT OUR EXHIBITION ABOUT PARAPHILIAS, CLIC IMAGE]

日本語\\\\フェティシズム、更に言えば、性的倒錯の世界を表現するのに、黒いレザー、ブーツやボンテージのようなありきたりのSMファッションの他に、一体何がされてきただろう。[イメージをクリックして]

español\\\\ Además de la ultra mañoseada vestimenta sadomasoquista, ¿qué más se ha hecho en aras de representar el fetichismo de los seres humanos o, yendo más allá, el universo de las desviaciones sexuales? [CHEKEA NUESTRA EXHIBICION SOBRE PARAFILIAS, HAZ CLIC EN LA IMAGEN]



↓↓↓JAPANESE DON'T USE THEIR FREEDOM↓↓↓
日本語\\\\自由を使っていない日本人。なにも、地球のどこかに、完璧な世界があると信じてるわけじゃない。だけど、もしも、その「完璧な世界」に近いものがあるとしたら、僕らにとってそれは「サブカルチャー」ということになる。つまり、インディペンデントで、アングラで、自由奔放で、独自の哲学を持つコミュニティ。そこでは、僕らにとっての「完璧」に近いものや探していたタイプの人間を見つけることが出来る。だけど、残念なことに、日本社会の最大の弱点に僕らが直面してしまうのもまた、このサブカルチャーの中なんだ。[イメージをクリックして]

english\\\\JAPANESE DON'T USE THEIR FREEDOM. It's not that we believe that a perfect place exists on the Earth. But if there is something close to it, it is the subculture -the space where we can find that and those who we are looking for-, or specifically that type of independent, free, countercultural, philosophic and bold community. Lamentably, it is in this sense of subculture /community where we bump into the weakest and most demoralizing point of Japanese society. [TO READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE ABOUT THE JAPANESE SOCIOCULTURAL REALITY, CLIC IMAGE BELLOW]

español\\\\LOS JAPONESES NO USAN SU LIBERTAD. No es que creamos que exista un lugar perfecto sobre la Tierra. Pero si hay algo cercano a eso es la subcultura -el espacio donde podemos encontrar eso y a esos a quienes estamos buscando-, o específicamente aquel tipo de comunidad independiente, libre, contracultural, filosófica y atrevida. Lamentablemente, es en este sentido de subcultura/comunidad donde nos topamos con el punto más débil y desmoralizador de la sociedad japonesa. [PARA LEER TODO EL ARTICULO SOBRE LA REALIDAD SOCIOCULTURAL JAPONESA, HAZ CLIC EN LA IMAGEN]


↓↓↓TFR IN NYC↓↓↓
Feat. The NYC Personalities Of the Moment [clic image]
My Photo
Name:
Location: Tokyo, Japan

we are a space of FREEDOM, FRESHNESS and ESCAPISM. from this perspective, we are one of the very FEW ORIGINAL MEDIA -and definitely the one that has the MOST TENACIOUS and CRITICAL OPINION- related to the 'WORLD OF FASHION'. yes, world we belong to, but also world we find abhorrent because it's representing the most visible side of the pseudo-well-being [CONSUMERISM], that behind glamourous SMOKE SCREENS [generally starred by 'MODELS' and 'POP STARS'], and making use of the so-called 'TRENDS', spreads the most recalcitrant STEREOTYPES of CAPITALISM and its just-apparent GLOBALIZATION... at THEFASHIONRAMONE [a.k.a TFR] you will find, then, the best alternative in fashion design and counterculture!!!!!


FUCK TFR @ MYSPACE + FUCK TFR @ FACEBOOK + FUCK TFR @ MIXI


Sunday, October 21, 2007

TFR in i-D MAGAZINE

日本語\\\\10月号のi-D magazine “The World Wide Web Issue”特集で僕たちTFRが取り上げられたことについて、残念ながら、僕たちはほとんど人格を去勢されたかのような気持ちがしたことをここで明言しなければならない。そして、i-Dのこの記事に対する返答として、一つの声明を発表したい。この声明は、僕たちのアイデンティティの崩壊について光明を投じてくれるはずだ。
TFRが“東京のクラブカルチャーへの扉を開いた”ことは明らかだけれど(i-Dでも触れられていて、それについては感謝している)、TFRは単にパーティの写真を掲載するだけのメディアではない。原則的に、僕たちはアートエグジビションやファッションコレクションについてもカヴァーしているし、結局大切なことは、僕たちがどんなパーティに行き、誰の写真を撮り、ランキングで誰を賞賛しているかを見て、そのイメージの裏に潜んでいるコンフォーミズム(同調主義)に真っ向から対峙するイデオロギーの存在を感じてもらうことだと思っている。コンフォーミズムだけじゃなく、ファッション業界のどうしようもない受動的な姿勢に対しても僕たちは挑戦している。
例えば、美を扱っていながら、どのファッションメディアも自らの美的基準や階層付けを明確にしていないことは、ある種の矛盾ではないだろうか?それはつまり、好みというものが無いということだろうか?どうしていつも同じ物、同じデザイナーなのか?むしろ、資本主義に裏打ちされた盲目ゆえなのか、それとも大手ブランドの経済的隷属化のせいなのだろうか?音楽やスポーツといった他分野のメディアと比べて、ファッションの世界には恐らくTFR以外のレフェリーはいないだろう。どちらにせよ、自分たちが愛するものについて書き、褒め称える自由と批評眼を持っていることを僕たちは誇りに思っている。TFRは、ファッションの世界から距離を置いているという点でパイオニア的なブログだと思っている。僕たちの最初のイベントでは、“私は私の前に人間がいたかどうかなんて知りたくもない”というラヴリーなデカルトのフレーズをタイトルに使うことで自分たちを表現した。「人間」を「ファッションメディア」と置き換えて理解して欲しい。
だけど、本質的に、TFRとは一体何なのか?TFR is NOTHING.僕たちは絶対主義者でも独断主義者でもない。だから必然的に、僕たちの美に対する本能も時と共に変わっていくだろう。僕たちが今ここで断言できることは、ファッションは僕たちの本質を最も表面的に分かりやすく表現する手段だということ。ただ、それだけのこと。









english\\\\
About our appearance in the latest i-D magazine october “The World Wide Web Issue”, unfortunately we feel an almost physical castration of our personae; therefore, we would like to transmit a statement in response to this article that, definitely, will give more light about the catastrophe of our identity.
Although it’s quite clear that TFR “has opened the door to Tokyo club culture” (as they say in i-D, which anyway we thank), TFR does not selfdefine itself as a mere photographic representation of parties and parties. In principle, we also cover art exhibitions and fashion collections. And after all, it’s a matter of seeing what parties we go, who we shoot and who we extol in our RANKINGS, to realise that beneath our images sublies a totally alternative ideology contrary to the conformism. And also, contrary to the world of fashion’s utter passivity.
For instance, isn’t it paradoxic that, dealing with beauty, no fashion media manifests its aesthetic criteria passionately and/or in hyerarchically way? Is it that they don’t have taste or what? Why always the same things, the same designers? Or is it rather due to capitalistic blindness or to economic slavery with the big brands? Compared to other fields as mediatics as music or sports, world of fashion has probably no more referees than TFR. And, in any case, we feel proud of our freedom and discernment to write and praise what we love. TFR has placed itself as the pioneer blog in getting further away from the world of fashion. And as the title of our first event, we identify ourselves in the lovely Descartes phrase “I don’t even want to know that there were men before me”. Understanding men as “FASHION MEDIA”.
But quintessentially, what is TFR? TFR is NOTHING. We are not owners of absolutisms nor dogmas, and consequently, our aesthetic instinct will be changing with the times. What we can affirm though, is that fashion represents our most superficial and visible side. And that’s all.








español\\\\A propósito de nuestra aparición en la última revista i-D edición de octubre “The World Wide Web Issue”, lamentablemente sentimos una castración casi física de nuestra persona; por ello, nos gustaría transmitir una declaración en respuesta a este artículo que, definitivamente, dará más luces sobre la catástrofe de nuestra identidad.
Si bien es cierto que TFR “ha abierto las puertas a la cultura club de Tokio” (como dicen en i-D, lo cual de todas maneras agradecemos), TFR no se autodefine como una mera representación fotográfica de fiestas y fiestas. En principio, también cubrimos exhibiciones de arte y colecciones de moda. Y después de todo, es cuestión de ver a qué fiestas vamos, a quiénes disparamos y a quiénes ensalzamos en nuestros RANKINGS, para darse cuenta de que por debajo de nuestras imágenes subyace una ideología totalmente contraria al conformismo. Y asimismo, contraria a la pasividad total del sistema del mundo de la moda.
Por ejemplo, ¿acaso no es paradójico que, teniendo que ver con la belleza, ningún medio fashion manifieste su criterio estético apasionadamente y/o en forma jerárquica? ¿Es que acaso no tienen gusto? ¿Por qué siempre las mismas cosas, los mismos diseñadores? ¿O más bien esto se debe a una ceguera capitalista o a la esclavitud económica con las grandes marcas? A comparación de otros campos tan mediáticos como la música o el deporte, el mundo de la moda probablemente no tiene más árbitros que TFR. Y, en todo caso, nos enorgullecemos de nuestra libertad y discernimiento para escribir y exaltar lo que nos encanta. TFR se ha erigido como el blog pionero en distanciarse del establishment del mundo de la moda. Y como el título de nuestro primer evento, nos identificamos en la dulce frase de Descartes “No quiero ni siquiera saber si antes de mí hubo otro hombre”. Entendiendo hombre por “FASHION MEDIA”.
Pero quintaesencialmente, ¿qué es TFR? TFR es NADA. No somos dueños de absolutismos ni de dogmas, y consecuentemente, nuestro instinto estético irá cambiando con el tiempo. Lo que sí podemos afirmar es que la moda representa nuestro lado más superficial y visible. Y eso es todo.

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