Name : Vivien Hoffpauir

Birthday : 05/26/1980

Email : viv@vivcore.com

Blood Type : O

About: I started making tsumami kanzashi in 2002. I had seen kanzashi in photos of geisha, and fell in love!

I spent weeks looking up what little information I could find about them, and after learning that they were made from fabric squares, I cut up some old clothes and began to experiment in an attempt to find the right shapes.

My first ever attempt was this pink, yellow and white kanzashi. Made from things I wasn't going to wear again, some scraps of fabric from an old project and some glass beads. Anything I had laying around, I couldn't wait to get stuck in!

From there I tried out more and more things, almost obsessively and began to find the right path to making tsumami kanzashi.

The effort paid off, and I started selling kanzashi under the name Gaijin Geisha, which grew to become my first clothing label.

Since then I have made hundreds of kanzashi, some traditional and some not.

I love creating new designs, and enjoy all the new lessons I'm still learning with each new kanzashi I make