Certain moments tend to stay with us forever. The previous generations can recall the moment they learned JFK was assassinated and personally, I’ll never forget 9-11, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Hurricane Katrina and now the devastation we’re playing witness to in Japan.

Although I’ve never had the honor of visiting, through dear friends and an admiration for their culture and resolve, the tragedy has left me thinking that I needed to do more than simply text $10 to the Red Cross. Seeing them, now in the relative aftermath, having to abandon certain traditions they hold so dearly is equally heartbreaking.

Along with Nicola Formichetti, Charlie Welch and Edward Kim, I’ve created a benefit edition titled “Flowers for the Land of the Rising Sun”. Three of my favorite guys (Jeff Tomsik, Steve Gold and Tomas Skoloudik) posing the way we enter and leave the world with a plethora of white flowers. To me the flowers represent the myriad of things from innocence,to beauty, to sadness and simplicity.

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- Jeremy Kost