S E A S O N: The project was founded by Maruko Hirae in 2022. Based in Tokyo. We believe fashion should be more sweet for us and our future, and we propose a sweeter fashion cycle: upcycle, fair trade, and one-of-a-kind pieces handmade with love. Through the experience of collaboration with creations, designers, and friends, you might find the beauty of everyday life hiding right next to you. We try to build a sustainable and sweet future society.
Felix Idle is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and translator raised in Darlinghurst, Sydney and working out of Matsudo, Chiba (on the outskirts of Tokyo).
Felix studied Fine Art and Japanese at the Australian National University, located in Australia’s Capital City Canberra. During this time in Canberra he cut his teeth attending, organising and performing at experimental music shows and club events, often catching the bus to Sydney and back in the process. His early involvement in music was highly online by necessity: the Canberra electronic music scene was small and most of his local friends were more into punk house shows than electronic music. However he also started Valley Spirit, a small CD label and event series, and Spirit Theatre, a concept-based mix series, around this time.
The first music under his Wa?ste moniker was released by Chinese net label Genome 6.66 mbp in 2016 and he travelled to Shanghai to perform at a release party for the EP, Hollow Vessel, the next year. 2017 also marked his move from Canberra to Melbourne to study translation at RMIT, where he would live until he moved again to Tokyo in 2018, following translation work.
Once in Tokyo, he soon rekindled connections from his exchange year in 2014 and started working with the North-West English DJ and producer Perfect Skin on the event series that eventually became known as Radix. He released his second EP “Living Demons” in 2019 on the UK/Taiwan net label Quantum Natives. Now living closer to Asia and Europe, his online friendships and collaborations took him to Taiwan, Korea, Hungary, Russia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK and the Netherlands before COVID-19 shut down international travel in 2020. Physically cut off from the world outside Tokyo and with less music events happening locally, he poured his creative energy into non-musical avenues, such as up-cycling clothes. He began selling these clothes at independent designer hub Mitame and designer select store GR8 starting in 2021.
Another move in 2022 took him to Matsudo, away from the densely populated centre of Tokyo. He took long walks around his new neighbourhood, documenting discoveries he made in a series of subtly surreal 3D still lives that became a small solo exhibition “Urban Remystification Project”. The looped 3D videos were first published online before being shown on early generation smartphones as part of an assemblage installed in a dilapidated apartment with tatami flooring not far from Matsudo station. He opened Re:store in the same space in 2024, selling upcycled clothing, second hand books, CDs and hosting events.
The project was founded by Maruko Hirae in 2022. Based in Tokyo.
We believe fashion should be more sweet for us and our future, and we propose a sweeter fashion cycle: upcycle, fair trade, and one-of-a-kind pieces handmade with love. And we think it's important to collaborate with each other. Through the experience of collaboration with creations, designers, and friends, you might find the beauty of everyday life hiding right next to you. We try to build a sustainable and sweet future society.
