Hajime Sorayama is a Japanese illustrator known for his his precisely detailed, erotic portrayals of feminine robots. Sorayama’s designs are a blend of fine art, illustration, and industrial design, developing his unique style of ‘superrealism’. He has collaborated with brands such as Medicom Toy, X-LARGE, and British Knights.
Dior X Hajime Sorayama:
Dior Men’s creative director, Kim Jones, saw an exhibition by Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama at Tokyo’s Nanzuka gallery. Kim Jones inspired by Sorayama’s meditations on the limitations of desire, which the artist explores through his hyperreal, erotic fembot sculptures, crafted from silver Mylar—felt the artist would be the perfect collaborator on a collection dedicated to Japan’s innovative advancements in AI and robotics.
“I describe my collaboration with Kim as two weirdos having fun,” says Sorayama, a prominent contemporary talent in his home country. “Kim has great artistic vision. As a creative myself, I could see this from the beginning.”
What I’m taking from Hajime Sorayama:
In the sense of where i’m going with this project, I wanted to feature this artist cause of his look at the female body because a certain aspect of my project that focuses on the two sides of body image. The more over exaggerated body that lives in digital world vs the every day bodies that are seen everyday.
Aisha Beya 