Video: "My grandfather is a fashion star": How a provincial teacher became a super model
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It all started just a month ago when Naoya Kudo came to his grandfather's house during the holidays. Tetsuya's grandfather is 84 years old and he lives the usual life of a retired in the province. “Let's arrange a real fashion photo session,” the grandson suggested to his grandfather, implying the grandfather himself as a model. Suddenly, the grandfather agreed - and this radically changed the lives of both of them.
Tetsuya's grandfather used to work as a chemistry teacher at the school, later became its director, and in recent years he simply lived for his own pleasure at home, an ordinary routine life. Perhaps it was precisely because he wanted to add some variety to his days that Tetsuya was very enthusiastic about his grandson's proposal. “My grandfather started suggesting places to take pictures,” Naoya recalls. “And the whole family started to tease him, especially when they saw him in fashionable clothes. Still - grandfather looks like a typical farmer, he is very far from fashion and he himself would never wear such clothes.
As a result, the grandfather very cordially began to experiment with clothes, relying on his grandson. “Let's go take a photo of the school where I worked,” he suggested. As a result, the grandson and grandfather managed to shoot a fairly large portfolio in a week. Naoya created a new Instagram account and posted pictures of his fashionable grandfather - and suddenly it became a real bomb: in just a day, 10,000 people signed up for this account. Today, just a month later, Tetsuya's fashionable grandfather is followed by more than a hundred thousand subscribers.
Thus, the spontaneous experiment resulted in fame that went far beyond the borders of Japan. In his hometown of Tetsuya, they also learned about these photographs, they began to recognize grandfather on the street. Naoya's grandson continues to exhibit photographs of his grandfather, assuring him that he will have enough footage for a long time, and then, it became an excellent reason to "once again" visit his relatives. “But I also think to arrange a photo exhibition in the gallery. My grandfather is not registered in social networks, he cannot look at all these photos at once and see what a stir they caused. Otherwise, he will be able to invite one of his former students to the exhibition."
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