Masayo's Stories

My 18 year old daughter graduated high school last year.She is taking a 6 month gap year at the moment and is due to go to university to study Industrial Design at QUT.It sounded all good and my daughter has been chilling at home every day and having a good time.No rush to go to school any more .. No need for her to iron her school uniform nor making her lunch..(Although most of the time I used to make her lunch..) Sleeping until lunch time. So I don't necessarily see her during the weekdays.Are your teen children the same?...

Deconstructed and aged with nature Last year when I re-visited the Monju Mountain near my hometown in Fukui village, everything seemed to remain the same as I had remembered when I was a little girl. I wonder how many people have visited this mountain in the last 30 years?  As soon as I step onto this mountain, the smell and sounds suddenly takes me back to my childhood, playing in this magical bush mountain. The thickness of the leaves underfoot show me the passage of time.  It is the same forest, but somewhat aged and deconstructed.  Is it me or...

We have just moved to South Brisbane! This week, we have just moved to our new studio at South Brisbane. It took a while for us to find this space which can keep our 11 meter long cutting table. We have painted the cutting table with fresh white and are now ready to take it to the new place.  This is our 25th year since keltiskesenge started and I feel that it's a new chapter for all of us. Hopefully we will introduce our new premises once we settle in the next few weeks. Over the years, our keltiskesenge family has grown and...

Some of you may have already heard that we are going to move our studio soon. My team members and I have been here for three years on the south side of Brisbane in . This is our second studio since the flooding in 2011. It's a quite large industrial space and is a convenient location for all of our team members. We have been a fashion house as well as a manufacturer since we started in 1999.    Over the last 24 years, we have grown, and shrunk and grown again. The shape of keltiskesenge has been changed and moulded as we have evolved, and...

After my first trip to Japan in 3 years, I am now fully recharged.All the things we experienced in Japan I saw with fresh eyes.I almost feel like I have visited a new world. Now, with just a few weeks till my Autumn collection deadline, I'm planning to change and adjust the range at the last minute. All the things I have seen and experienced in Japan, will now be incorporated into my designs. I can't wait to share it all with you soon.

A flowing river continues changing it's shape and speed, it will never go back to the way it was.Everything on this earth is the same as a river.Reminding us that the only thing in the universe that will never change, is the fact that everything changes.   Sense of ImpermanenceThrough Tiel's creations, I experienced the memories of my childhood, the views of the rice fields that I grew up with. The bamboo bush behind my old house that I thought would never change.It was not an exciting view at that time.But now that I get older, that view stays in...