About

- English follows, if you’d like (_translated clumsily, sorry!)

小松なおみ

子供の頃の環境も手伝い、最終学歴は高校です。
無意識な不安、の中を50代の後半まで漂っていました。

30代から40代も迷い続け、50代で独立、60代で最適化段階へ(やっと)。これまでの起伏多い淵源のおかげで、今の集中力を得た気がしています。
遅すぎる歩みかもしれませんが、経験を淡々と綴ります。

鈍色(にびいろ)の不透明感に沈んでしまった時や、何かを始めたい女性たちへ、ひとつの物差しとなれば幸いです。

職歴

1995年から香港の日系企業にて、大手広告代理店やアパレルブランドのノベルティ、化粧品包装資材等の企画・デザイン、工場剪定、生産管理、輸出業務、全ての工程を主導。アイデアを形にし、品質を管理する責務を全うし生産性を向上した15年が、私の枢軸となっています。

(2007年にニュージーランドの自然化粧品「キャロルプリースト」の日本国内独占販売権を個人として取得。同時にアロマテラピー(IFPA香港校)を学び、食やスキンケアなど、五感を満たすものの先にある、上質な世界に価値基準が移りました)

その後、当企業日本法人の取締役として数年間、マネージメントを兼任しました。
2013年、52歳で独立。株式会社ミンクスを設立し、コンセプトショップ「HERBALY.」を運営。自身で開発した「mFブラシ」でグッドデザイン賞をいただきました。
今また、ものづくりを少しずつ再開しています。

about

Naomi Komatsu

High school was as far as my education went, no choice. For much of my life, well into my late 50s, I drifted through a fog I could not quite name: a low-grade, sourceless anxiety — that never fully lifted.

Through my 30s and 40s I kept wandering. At 50 I struck out on my own. At 60, I finally — finally — began to feel something like equilibrium. I think it is precisely because of that turbulent passage, all those years of upheaval and detour, that I now possess the quality of focus I do. My progress has been slow, perhaps laughably so. But I intend to set it down plainly, without embellishment.

If these pages can serve as one small measure — a single point of reference — for women who have found themselves submerged in that leaden, opaque heaviness, or for those standing at the edge of something new they have not yet dared to begin, I could ask for nothing more.

The work of making things
From 1995, based in Hong Kong and working within Japanese-owned firms, I led every stage of the process : from concept development and design, factory oversight, production management, and export operations , for novelty goods, apparel brands, and cosmetic packaging commissioned by major advertising agencies. Translating ideas into tangible form, maintaining the integrity of quality at every juncture, and driving measurable gains in productivity: those 15 years became the axis around which everything else in my life would turn.

(In 2007, I acquired the exclusive domestic distribution rights for Carol Priest, a New Zealand natural cosmetics brand, as an individual proprietor. Concurrently, I studied aromatherapy at the IFPA Hong Kong campus. It was during this period that my sense of value quietly shifted — away from the functional and toward something richer: the refined world that lies just beyond food, skincare, and all the things that nourish the five senses.)

I subsequently served for several years as a director of the Japanese subsidiary of that same company, taking on management responsibilities alongside my other work.

In 2013, at the age of fifty-two, I went independent. I established Minx Co., Ltd. and launched the concept shop HERBALY. The mF Brush, a tool I developed myself, was recognised with the Good Design Award.

Now, little by little, I am returning to the work of making things.

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