Insights January 12th, 2016
TO GO WITH STORY Japan-culture-costumes,FEATURE by Harumi Ozawa This picture taken on January 25, 2014 shows members of Tokyo Zentai Club chating each other at a park in Tokyo. Some meet through Internet forums and through gatherings like the Tokyo Zentai Club, whose ten members get together every other month, just like any other group, to hold barbecues or parties. Unlike any other group, they are covered head-to-toe in skintight Lycra.They are part of a small subset in Japan with a fetish for wearing outfits called "zentai" -- an abbreviation of "zenshintaitsu", which means "full body suit" -- who say they are seeking liberation through the complete sublimation of the physical self. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO
AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO

Living Modern Life With Zentai we look at the option of living life anonymously but drawing attention to themselves. This is not such a strange idea to over accentuate our anonymity in larger cities but to stand out with that anonymity.
Zentai (from the Japanese ゼンタイ) is a term for skin-tight garments that cover the entire body.[1] The word is a portmanteau of zenshin taitsu (全身タイツ) (“full-body tights”). Zentai is most commonly made using nylon/spandex blends.
Sure, this might seem fetishistic, but so is our obsession with technological devices, make-up, fashion, and other facets of modern life. I’d love to see a zentai workplace.

In Public But Totally Anonymous

Zentai Town

This is Zentai Art Festival Video
Please check more series of Zentai Art Festival at
http://www.zentaiart.com

Zentai Walk

People Try Zentai Dating

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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