at various times in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s i worked with MALCOLM MCLAREN, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, JAMIE REID and the SEX PISTOLS, which meant i had truly served my apprenticeship in fashion, music and art.

in 2012 my book PUNK’S DEAD was released by DIVUS, the number one art-house publisher in the czech republic. to accompany the book i was invited to make two t-shirt collaborations; one with REVOLUTION sendai; the other was with FRAGMENT DESIGN of tokyo.

the promotional t-shirts i designed sold well and, in an exclusive collaboration with FRAGMENT JAPAN, more prints were produced. these new designs also sold out and, with the help of the founder of FRAGMENT, HIROSHI FUJIWARA, my label, which was then still called PUNK’S DEAD, started to expand. new garments were added; shirts; jackets; trousers; sweatshirts; handkerchiefs; hand knitted jumpers and accessories… organically, it had grown into a full clothing range.

I changed the label’s name to ‘AKA SIX’ and the ‘PUNK’S DEAD’ label, in 2024, became a diffusion range.

in 2016 i sold the first AKA SIX clothes to 10 CORSO COMO in milan, when i exhibited at the GALLERIA CARLA SOZZANI with JAMIE REID, the artist and graphic designer for the SEX PISTOLS - as part of the ‘PUNK IN BRITAIN’ exhibition. this show, with a new selection of AKA SIX clothes, would later transfer the following year to CORSO COMO SEOUL, south korea.

i had previously shown this work in prague, london and berlin, and in 2024 the PUNK’S DEAD exhibition opened at the VEKTOR (GARAGE) GALLERY tokyo.

more collaborations followed with: 

FRAGMENT / HIROSHI FUJIWARA

JAMIE REID / RAGGED KINGDOM

HAJIME TACHIBANA / DOVER STREET MARKET TOKYO

CANDY RIM / OSAKA

DO NOTHING CONGRESS

GOD SELECTION XXX

the label also became available in: 

SELFRIDGES (london)

SOTO (berlin)

HANON (scotland)

…and 20 stores across Japan