Considered Objects
Multidimensional creative Sara Sakanaka’s idea for Considered Objects came about when she inherited her grandmother’s kimono collection in 2020. As a form of healing, she started to dismantle and reassemble them. Soon enough, this grieving process developed into one-of-a-kind shirts made entirely from second-hand kimonos from her rich archive sourced from all across Japan, with some from friends and family and others thrifted. Her unique magic of uncovering gems from the past and recontextualising them for the future speaks to the name Considered Objects, inspired by an old Japanese folktale her mother used to tell her – Tsukumogami Emaki – where objects are said to acquire a soul if looked after for 100 years. Sakanaka’s two hands are behind every stitch, and each design is complete with handwritten tags and her signature pressed flowers.
Multidimensional creative Sara Sakanaka’s idea for Considered Objects came about when she inherited her grandmother’s kimono collection in 2020. As a form of healing, she started to dismantle and reassemble them. Soon enough, this grieving process developed into one-of-a-kind shirts made entirely from second-hand kimonos from her rich archive sourced from all across Japan, with some from friends and family and others thrifted. Her unique magic of uncovering gems from the past and recontextualising them for the future speaks to the name Considered Objects, inspired by an old Japanese folktale her mother used to tell her – Tsukumogami Emaki – where objects are said to acquire a soul if looked after for 100 years. Sakanaka’s two hands are behind every stitch, and each design is complete with handwritten tags and her signature pressed flowers.
Meet The Maker
Meet The Maker:
Considered Objects
Sara Sakanaka worked as a designer for 15+ years before she established Considered Objects – a project guided by her experience growing up in Los Angeles in a first-generation Japanese family. During childhood, she was encouraged to create new things from old treasures, giving new meaning to the pieces that pepper our daily lives. As a result, her process is slow and measured, and she devotes countless hours to unthreading her kimonos panel by panel, preserving and documenting every stitch before re-engineering them with the original details, seams and soul of the original in mind. Every step is kept in her two hands, from the selecting to the finishing, while hidden details await that capture the emotional, nostalgic value she sews into every one-of-a-kind design.
