HEAD PROP studies 2013-2016 by Tomihiro Kono + Special Head prop designed for Junya Watanabe / Comme des Garçons 2015 SS.

Tomihiro Kono is an established hair stylist and Head Prop Artist, whose innovations gave way to a new form of expression and wearable art forms. Head Prop carefully deconstructs Kono’s creative process, offering readers a rare glimpse into the technical finesse autonomous questioning and refinement that encourages careers like Kono’s to reach such a caliber of notoriety. Mechanical drawings and three-dimensional sketches fill the pages of Head Prop, establishing the significance of process-oriented evolution through design ideas and iterations. Kono’s props are at once completely sculptural and utilitarian; they provide their wearers with an entirely separate characterization from the one available to them on a daily basis.