In the underground garages of Tokyo, a new Kabuki is emerging — raw, minimal, beautiful. A generation of artists is transforming Japan’s oldest form of theatre into an urban movement between fashion, ritual, and identity. And at its centre: Ren Sato, the face of a tradition learning to breathe again.

When his roommate died, all that remained was a box of clothes. Adrien Van der Mierde stitched a first flower from those fabrics — something that could stay when a person cannot. Today, in his small Antwerp atelier, he creates lasting textile bouquets for families in mourning.

Me, in conversation with myself – about childhood, AI, and the beauty of the unnecessary. A quiet dialogue about imagination, origin, and the question why beauty should never need an excuse. About castles made of cardboard, about a forest in Tyrol, and the sense of wonder that somehow remained.

In the mountains of Japan, a wooden carousel from the Edo period is rebuilt every fifteen years – not to preserve it, but to let it breathe. Im Zentrum eines Museums, das sich einmal pro Generation um sich selbst dreht, steht Das Pferd des Kaisers: unbewegt, erleuchtet, und doch das Herz einer Bewegung, die Erinnerung heißt.

In a disused onsen high in the mountains of Nagano, Hideo Mori creates his nature drones – delicate guardians made of bamboo, hemp, and resin. They respond to water, smoke, or vibrations, rising into the air to warn before danger becomes visible. His work is not an act of technology, but of listening: design that disappears without leaving a trace.

The story of Cecilia Moriano – a fictional textile heiress who doesn't inherit the family business, but reclaims it. Amidst fabrics, family conflicts, and a glimpse into the future, this tale of courage, aesthetics, and female strength unfolds. A brand that never existed. And yet, it endures.

In a Milanese palazzo lives Contessa Ludovica di Brera, a woman devoted to collecting imperfection. In this fictional interview, she speaks of broken porcelain, of fire, flaws, and truth. A story by Daniel Weiss about beauty in decay and the play between reality and imagination.

Nikos Salda is a Greek artist and architect whose large-scale installations explore the fragile balance between structure, light, and belief. From The 13th Star, a 90-meter yellow scaffold built on a former NATO base, to Shading the Cradle, a floating canopy above the Parthenon, his works transform symbols of power into gestures of protection.

In the quiet light of a Lombard morning, Cecilia Moriano sits surrounded by sketches, fabric swatches, and the weight of a legacy she never expected to inherit. When her brother walked away from the family textile house, Cecilia returned—on one condition: she would save it her way. The result is a revival born of rebellion, memory, and the vibrant orange of her great-grandmother’s lost fabric.

The Beauty of the Flaw tells the story of Contessa Ludovica di Brera, a Milanese collector who turns kiln accidents into art. Her world is one of elegance and collapse — a reflection on imperfection, beauty, and time. Created by Daniel Weiss as part of his DWHH series of post-documentary narratives, exploring design, decay, and the truth within fiction.

In the mountains of Nagano, Japanese designer Hideo Mori builds nature drones from bamboo, hemp, and resin. His fragile creations awaken when water rises or the ground trembles — silent guardians that listen to the landscape and return to it once their purpose is fulfilled.

At the edge of Europe, where the land breaks into sea, a yellow star rises—built from a hundred thousand scaffolding bars on a former NATO base. Nikos Salda’s 13th Star turns a site of defense into a beacon of peace, a monument for what remains unfinished.

Above the Parthenon, a vast black canopy hovers like a woven shadow — an act of preservation and provocation at once. With Shading the Cradle, Nikos Salda reimagines democracy not as a ruin, but as a structure that still breathes, fragile and unfinished beneath the Athenian sun.

In Paris, within the marble halls of the Hôtel de Clémence, pastry becomes philosophy. Apolline Faure, 26, leads the Institut National des Desserts Nominatifs — a commission that decides how desserts are named. Between stainless steel and silence, she turns recipes into reflections on identity, structure, and the language of taste.