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place or was gifted from a special person. In some cases, the chipped piece makes it feel even more precious and special, no? Food is another one. While sliced bread is nice, sometimes bread torn from the baguette tastes better, even if it's uneven. Or how about cookies that are misshapen — they taste better than those perfectly circular ones, and you can see the love through those jagged lines. Let's round out this list with an example from nature—wildflowers. There's something delightful in allowing Mother Nature to pick the color arrangements and layouts. And although a vase on the dinner table filled with wildflowers isn't perhaps as elegant or pristine as one from the florist, it has something special about it, something divinely simple and touching that you can't put your finger on. That's wabi sabi. But the concept of Wabi-Sabi doesn't have to apply to aged products or even physical objects for that matter. Wabi-Sabi can mean admiring the uneven edges of a natural wood coffee table, the worn grooves in an old stone staircase, or appreciating the sound of rainfall while it otherwise causes you a nuisance. Wabi-Sabi has grown as a concept over thousands of years, and its influence is evident in many Japanese craft forms. Kintsugi (translating to "golden joinery"), also known as Kintsukuroi (translating to "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered precious metals like gold and silver. As an art form, Kintsugi honors the Wabi- Sabi philosophy by treating damage and repair as part of the history of an object— something to build upon and admire, rather than disguise or dismiss. Boro and Sashiko are two other examples of how Wabi-Sabi has manifested in Japanese culture. These crafts, both of which are very prevalent in modern fashion and the raw denim scene, differ in their conception, but both channel the concept