Akari Endo-Gaut - “80% Fantasy, 20% Truth”

Akari Endo-Gaut is a stylist, designer, and curator who has spent her career refusing to pick one lane. She’s dressed Alex Katz, designed the room at the two-Michelin-starred restaurant Al Coro, and written for Sotheby’s Magazine. The thread through all of it is a conviction that an object carries time—and the older it is, the more honestly it speaks. One detail says everything: a Cartier ring from her mother that she has never once taken off—not at the beach, not on a shoot, not anywhere. It feels fitting, then, that Akari is seated on one of John Chamberlain’s iconic foam couches, the same couch host Alexandra Fairweather grew up on. Her crib was a miniature of it, in the kitchen of Chamberlain’s studio.Follow our host: https://www.instagram.com/alexandrafairweather/ Follow our guest: https://www.instagram.com/akariendogaut/?hl=en  Stay up-to-date with the John Chamberlain Estate:Follow: https://www.instagram.com/johnchamberlainestate/ To learn more about the estate’s work and mission, visit: https://www.john-chamberlain.com/ Media inquiries: chamberlain@dadagoldberg.comTune in to episodes of ON THE COUCH via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, YouTube, or wherever you prefer to stream.---------------Timestamps:0:00 – Introduction0:27 – Meet Stylist & Designer Akari Endo-Gault1:32 – Growing Up in Japan: Kimono, Ceramics & Tradition4:41 – Inside Her Father's Architecture Studio5:47 – Le Corbusier & Studying French Literature in Tokyo8:02 – Moving to Paris: First Impressions10:31 – Why Vintage & Antique Objects Matter11:20 – Studying at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris12:49 – Producing Fashion Shows for Dior & Michael Kors14:06 – How She Became a Fashion Stylist15:21 – Styling Painter Alex Katz17:53 – The Meaning Behind Her Mother's Ring20:11 – From Fashion Styling to Restaurant Interior Design24:25 – Black Mountain College & Josef Albers Research30:28 – Career Advice for Creatives & Slowing Down Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.