ANIMAL HOUSE @Shibuya PARCO

Tory Burch has opened a concept shop at Shibuya Parco for a limited time, featuring animal portraits by photographer Walter Schels.

Tory discovered Schels’s work years ago and was immediately drawn to his animal portraits. “There’s a human element to Walter’s photographs, in the way he looks at the animals and they in turn look back,” she says. “He gives animals the same respect as humans, highlighting their unique personalities and emotions.”

“Animals were my friends as a child; I felt close to them,” Walter says. Animals don’t disguise themselves. An animal doesn’t ask itself, ‘Am I beautiful?’ It has no sense of shame. It is just the way it is.”