Available now online & in select stores
Featured Artists Deb Never, India Sachi, Koo Bohnchang, Justin Muegge, Sohn Dae-Hyun, Lily Taïeb, Ken Mogi, Bunny Rogers, Shin Sang-Ho, Asami Shoji, Hitomi Kanehara, Richard Kern, Joo Eun-Jae
Editor-in-chief / Creative Director Jenn Kang
Art Director Naho Toyoda
Editor-at-large Takuya Aono
Contributing Editors Natsuki Makino, Yeonkyung Kim, Soyoung Lee, Juliann Mccandless, Ayumi Taguchi
Translators Natsuki Makino, Sean Kang, Osada Kasumi, Soyoung Lee, Rurika Klausen, Jenn Kang
Thank you to Comme Des Garçons, Hana Yagi, Lee Mathews, Los Angeles Apparel
I’m excited to finally share my latest project TOUCH, a new trilingual magazine published in English, Korean, Japanese. After a year in the making, our first issue “Everything Physical” is now available for preorder.
This is a deeply personal project — a labor of love that brings together contributors across cultures and languages to explore the universal experience of intimacy and physicality. Every interview in this book was held in person, shaped by the presence and depth you only get through face-to-face conversations.
To celebrate our preorder and launch event, we’re introducing a special first edition: 500 limited-run hardcover books, offset printed and bound with a distinctive embossed fingerprint on the cover.
If you’d like to support and hold one in your hands, preorders are now live. Official release end of September and more info soon <3
LINK IN BIO ❤️❤️
Lunch with Japanese neuroscientist Ken Mogi (茂木 健一郎). From fashion and touch to shared meals, microbiomes, and the limits of algorithmic intimacy, we speak about connection as something fundamentally physical.
“When you date someone, you usually eat something together. You share a meal, and your gut flora begin to resemble each other’s.”
Read the conversation in TOUCH V1 in English, 日本語, 한국어.
@qualiaken Interviewed by @jenn__kang@aymtgc
Translated by @makinonatsukiiii@sylverres@jenn__kang
Photographed by @jenn__kang
We had the pleasure of visiting one of Tokyo’s most intimate bookshops, @wagamamabooks , nestled inside Aga’s very own home. Thank you for opening your space to us and for the wonderful conversation over tea and okashi 🫖
TOUCH is now available here.
Thank you to everyone who came by our TOUCH pop-up at @daikanyamatsutaya_art . We’re so grateful for the warmth and interest shown over the two weeks.
* The book remains available in-store. *
Our first interview spread in the issue: @debnever .
Photographed and interviewed at Deb’s home and studio in Los Angeles by @jenn__kang and translated by @thisisnotnene
Read the full story in TOUCH V1.
TOUCH has landed in Seoul 📍📚
Introducing some of our stockists, all among our favorite bookstores in the city. More to come.
터치가 드디어 서울에 도착했습니다.
서울에서 저희가 가장 애정하는 서점들 중 일부에서 만나보실 수 있어요. 곧 더 많은 곳에서 소개할 예정이니 기대해 주시기 바랍니다.
