Biography Hana Tajima

Her name is Hana Tajima-Simpson, She's 23, with a Japanese father and English mother. She have a pretty mixed background, both her parents are artists, so she grew up in a really creative environment. She didn't study fashion for that long, and although She's a self-confessed geek she never really got along with formal education.Hana Tajima is a designer and visual artist.  Her blog stylecovered.com fast became a new and unique voice in fashion and is a widely read reference the world over.  

"There is a strange juxtaposition of cultures in my life and I’m constantly looking for that strange beauty in what I design.  There is a side of me obsessed with simplicity and the beauty of the unseen that is very Japanese, and then this rebellious, rather eccentric aspect that is the sum of growing up in England."

With a professional background in fashion, Hana went straight from a design education to starting a womenswear label, MAYSAA, which gained much success both in the UK and internationally.  Notable features and interviews include ELLE Italia, ELLE Canada, Address Magazine, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Currently Hana is working with artists and designers such as Okuda Yusai on collaborative fashion projects, and writing for her blog and print publications.  Her photographic work has also been featured in ELLE Italia and many online blogs and journals.

"I love to work in different mediums, and to always keep myself in a position of learning and creating.  There is no difference in the root of the art, it all has the same stem, but it's a wonderful thing to see the divergence in the paths it can take.”
She didn't want to lose her love of designing, so she left the fashion course she was on. It's less of a contradiction than it sounds!
 

http://hanatajima.com/