Willa, Sophisticated Love Nights
February 22nd, 2010Text:Dodi Espinosa, Published at Metal magazine 19.
Peruvian with oriental roots Gallermic is the creator of emblematic Japanese parties such as TFR (The Fashion Ramone) or NarziB, two regular events that took part inside an attack against mainstream culture in the Japanese scene and the globalized world. Now, he is back next to the legendary Vivienne Sato (A unique cultural concierge in Tokyo) presenting Willa. A new project full of deep reflections about life, the human being, the good and the evil, the art scene and a long etcetera, but above everything, love.
Photo: Gallermic
The most appealing thing about these parties is that they’re not just simple nights to show off clothes, they always have a strong cultural background as a means to create a community of friends, and this time, the principal objective is in words of the creator: “To generate love and communication through an universal symbolism that reaches everybody’s heart, Willa is a party for the good flowers”.
This project started with The Absentee Owner night and each event is going to be like an exhibition of art objects following a chosen theme, mainly photography by Gallermic next to other interesting collaborations. Willa seems to be a great project especially because the intention is to touch the visitors mind and liberate them from ordinary conventions, helping them to reach unknown sides.
So, if you go to Tokyo don’t forget to have a look at the Blog and if something is happening don’t hesitate to assist to any of this nights. Don’t forget that like in TFR or NarziB, Willa also has a dress code; individualism inspired by Caravaggio’s and Wilde’s quotes about vanity, all this accompanied by a selection of music between psychedelia and provocation: “We play magic music of all time, in all tongues, from arias to chicha…”. If you want to understand this ecstasy party a bit better here you have the Willa’s Manifesto:
A Girl from the Opera “…I never met my father, but I know my mother very well, her name is Pega Sue. She told me the story of my coming since I was a little girl. My mother used to tell me: ‘Oh Willa, you are my adoration, I made you with love’. Next she would start explaining how come she didn’t know who my father was: ‘Before you were born, the whole world seemed a dark place to live for me, where people only took advantage of my need of love. I had a very sad childhood that made me an insecure girl with a longing for protection and ready to love everybody for no reason. Eventually I ended up horribly exploited by men, meeting many guys and making love with all of them constantly, I was crazy craving for love, and that’s how, my dear, you came into my world…but you have saved me’. I think she is very cool, she was sincere from the beginning, and opened my view to a new kind of dimension, where trying to understand everything is the basis. Well, thanks to her my curiosity is as huge as my ability to love is really exuberant, not as my mother’s, I think there must be a reason to love and every relationship is a form of exchange and has a goal anyway, right?, but I can also be a decadent actress. I would like to share this magnificent sensation of love, comprehension and opera with more people, because sometimes I get lonely and bored in the city. It’s not acceptable! So, well, I’ve decided to make a gathering with a lot of keywords, thus I can meet individuals with the same sort of moral and get hedonistic together…!”
