Kenzo's Lovely New Video Wonders What One's Hands Say About a Person

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“The hand is where the mind meets the world.”

This quiet, compelling phrase unspools the narrative of Kenzo’s “Hands.”

Created by Buenos Aires-based directors collective 1985, and part of a partnership between Kenzo and Nowness, the video builds on that thesis by describing how much your hands convey.

There’s a sense and a poetry here that left us gazing into our own hands for nearly a minute. Like the rings of a tree, they can reveal your age, and whether you are patient, kind, funny, gentle or—as the expression goes—heavy-handed.

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