model: 兎白えむ
special thanks to: 中野ロープウェイ
tracktop: A.P.C.
photo: トーニャハーディング
© tracktop girl
Nakano Broadway, B1. A sanctuary of “Subculture” long before the term was commodified for the masses. Against the symbolic overload of Nakano Ropeway—a shop filled with kitsch and bootleg artifacts—Emu Ushiro stands in a void of clinical white A.P.C. nylon. Her family name, Ushiro (containing the kanji for “White”), creates a double layer of bleaching, a silence forced upon the visual noise. Nakano is in a state of violent metamorphosis. Luxury watch boutiques devour the old corridors, and part of the building we leaned against for this shoot has already been demolished. tracktop girl records this liminal space. The zipper of the track jacket serves as the ultimate boundary—separating the interior soul from a city being hollowed out by capital. We show what people may not want to see: the fading edge of an era.