Naoki Komiya
Naoki Komiya began his career training as a hairdresser in his hometown of Tokyo, Japan. After eight years honing and developing his skills, Naoki took the decision to move to London to pursue a career in the creative industry and was quickly taken on by an East London salon.
It wasn’t long before Naoki began to look outside of the salon for other opportunities to work with hair and began assisting Paul Hanlon, working with him on shows across Europe and in New York. Soon after Naoki began exercising his own creativity, producing work with like-minded friends, which featured in publications such as i-D and Dazed & Confused.
It was the Spring of 2010 when Naoki joined Julian Watson Agency. He has been studiously prolific ever since, working with photographers Alasdair McLellan, Ben Toms, Lola & Pani, Mark Peckmezian, Theo Sion, Thurstan Redding, amongst others, and stylists Jodie Barnes, Julian Ganio, Robbie Spencer, Max Pearmain, Tom Guinness to name a few.
Naoki has collaborated with an array of designers on their runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York; including Marni, Calvin Klein, Homme Plissé Issey Miyake. Other clients include Burberry, COS, Tommy Hilfiger, Alexander McQueen, Fendi, Joseph to name a few.
He contributes to publications such as Vogue, POP, Dazed, AnOther, Re-Edition, Arena Homme +, Document Journal, Beyond Noise Magazine.