WASSO VEGE'Sには、佐々木べジの服に対する哲学が反映されています。

あなたなら和服と洋服の違いをどこに発見されますか?

佐々木べジはこう言います。

「それはデザインとかモチーフの次元ではありません。
服に対して期待するものが決定的に違う。まったく逆と言っても良い。和服はそれを着る人間が主体ではなく、人間は服を表現するための道具に過ぎないのです。主人公はあくまで服のデザインとモチーフであり、そして、一番大切にされなければならないのが、服自身が持つ直線的なラインなのです。」

「それに対して洋服は人間が主人公。
身体のラインを引き立たせたり、時には隠したりしながら、一人一人の体型や個性に合わせ、着る人の魅力を引き出すのが、洋服の使命です。服の素材をハサミと針と糸を使って布を縫い合わせてその人のための服を作ります。素材とデザイン、モチーフ及びラインはあくまでも着る人のための存在です。」

「しかし和服は服のラインに人間が合わせなければなりません。 女性の身体をたくさんの種類の帯と紐と布を使って、縛ったり、引き締めたりするのです。時には服と身体の間に綿を詰めたりもします。つまり人間の身体を直線的に縫製するのです。これらの一連の作業を【着付け】と言います」

和服は日本民族の有史以前から続く、何万年もの伝統に培われた比類なき芸術衣装です。
しかしながら、今日の日本では日常的にこの【伝統芸術】を着る人は存在していません。
その理由は、【着付け】という、たくさんの修練を必要とする着衣方が必要なのと何種類もの紐類で体中を縛りあげる苦しさがあるからです。このように、洋服と和服は対極の概念からスタートしそれぞれ数万年に及ぶ伝統の中で、改良と改善を積み重ねてきました。

2017年3月WASSO VEGE'S は、VANCOUVER FASHION WEEKにおいて服飾文化における東洋と西洋の邂逅を実現させました。 西洋の女性たちには洋服と同じ感覚で着れる【和装】のラインとモチーフを提供し、日本の女性たちには、【着付け】からの解放とのびのびとした着心地に加え、動きやすさを与えました。 今、全世界の女性達に向けて洋服のテイストを含んだ新しい伝統芸術が発信をされています。

WASSO VEGE'S reflects the philosophy of Sasaki Vege(Beji) about clothing.
Where can you find the difference between kimono and clothes?

Vege says,
"It's not a dimension of design or motif. What you expect from each of these types of clothing is definitely different. It may be said to be completely opposite. When you put on a piece of Japanese traditional clothing, the main constituent is not a person who wears it. A person is only tool for expressing clothes. The protagonist is absolutely the design and motif of the clothes, and the most important thing is the linear designs of clothes themselves.

"On the other hand, it could be said that the protagonist of western clothing is the person who wears it. The mission of western clothing, is to draw out charm of the person who puts it on.
Each design is made so it fits to your body shape and your personality, by complimenting your body lines to make them more attractive, or sometimes by concealing the body line entirely.
Dresses are made for an individual by sewing the material of dress with scissors, a needle, and thread. Materials, design, motif and line are all put into consideration for the person who wear it.

"With this being said, the person who wears Japanese traditional clothing, must adjust themselves to the line of clothing from the moment they put it on. The body of woman is tied or tightened with many kinds of bands and strings and fabrics. Sometimes you put padding between the clothing and the body as well. In other words, we sew the human body line into the kimono itself. This series of work is called "Kitsuke"

Japanese traditional clothing is an unparalleled artistic costume, cultivated through tens of thousands of years of tradition, and had continued from the prehistoric times of the Japanese people. However, there are no people who wear this traditional art form in their everyday life in Japan.

This is because in order to wear this type of clothing, you need to know how to put it on, which requires a lot of training called Kitsuke, that and you need to suffer being tied up with many kinds of strings while you wear it as well.

In this way, Western clothing and Japanese clothing have started to have counter-opposite concepts, and have been continuously improving through the tens of thousands of years of tradition.

March 2017, at VANCOUVER FASHION WEEK, WASSO VEGE'S realized encounter of the Oriental and Western ideologies in clothing culture will be presented. WASSO VEGE'S utilizes the line and motif of traditional Japanese WASO, that can be worn in the same sense as western clothes for the western woman, while providing liberation from Kitsuke, a high degree of comfort, and ease of movement for Japanese woman.

Now we are sending these clothes to the women all over the world, as a new traditional art that includes the taste of western fashion in their designs.