Tokyo’s best vintage store Qoo opens in Osaka ◎日本一を目指すブランドビンテージ店 Qooが大阪にOPEN
Tokyo’s best vintage brand store Qoo has barely squeaked out a year and now it has opened a brand spankin new shop in Osaka’s teeming America Mura neighborhood. Find out why everyone from celebrities to international collectors are obsessed with this shop… 東京当代一のヴィンテージブランドショップ、Qooは大阪の繁華街、アメリカ村に新しい店舗をオープンさせた。どうして世界中のセレブとコレクター達がこのショップに 夢中になっていると思う…？
The prestigious SOEN AWARDS JAPAN 2014 winners and full collections ◎装苑賞2014年で輝いた優秀な若手デザイナーを全公開します！
The SOEN Awards is a long-standing design competition in Tokyo, now in it’s 88th iteration. Created by SOEN Magazine with support from Bunka Fashion College, and judged by a panel of the country’s top designers (like Tsumori Chisato and Keita Maruyama) it is one of the most prestigious in the world. I wish it got
2D to 3D Fashion Illustrator Jumpei Kawamura ◎ 常識を超えた 2D が超リアルに見える 3Dファッションイラストレーター川村淳平
You may have heard of a documentary called “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” which explores not just delicious raw fish, but more about the care and obsessive detail that goes into craftwork for Japanese artists (in food as in fashion, natch). I have met one such genius man, Jumpei Kawamura, whose minute attention to
All hail CUNE, Tokyo’s most avantgarde brand ◎東京の最高にアバンギャルドな CUNEとバルサンの恋愛ストーリー
Speaking of junk culture (and here w Moschino)…. The 2014-15 FW collection from CUNE would be splattered with the guts of a thousand bugs if they weren’t killed by the poisoned smoke of Japanese fumigation product VARSAN first. One look at that and the creepers will run….. 昨日に続き、ジャンクカルチャーについて書こうかな（ここでもモスキーノについて）….CUNEの2014-15秋冬コレクションは日本の代表的殺虫剤”バルサン”とコラボ！ファッション バッグというおしゃれ群、これ見た瞬間走り出すんじゃない？笑 The CUNE Bunny キューンのウサギもあっちこっち登場
東京へ来て１０年が立つ頃に伝いたい気持ち 10 years in Tokyo, a thank you and a look back
I stood still in the middle of Shibuya scramble crossing one spring day when I was 18 years old, the crowd swarming around me in all directions like koi in a pond. J-pop played on the jumbo screen, it was a mix of words I could and couldn’t discern. It felt energetic…like a vortex, some
Comme des Comfy Garcons FW 2014 ◎ コムデ着心地良いギャルソン秋冬2014年
I have found the most comfortable avantgarde fashion in the history of things. The idea of “comfort” comes up a lot in the discourse of avantgarde fashion, and it makes sense; avantgarde is never meant to be comfortable, it is the antithesis of comfort. It’s is about design and aesthetic. High fashion is not *supposed*
Interview: Diesel Black Gold’s Andreas Melbostad FW 2014-15 ◎「ディーゼルブラックゴールド」のアンドレアスに聞いてみたこと
“It’s kind of in the middle of nowhere, with farmland where people grow vegetables, and then you have this huge incredible airport-like structure there,” says Andreas Melbostad of his studio, within the mega-brand known as Diesel in a small town in Northern Italy. “And I live in New York City, so it’s a different world”.
Tokyo menswear trend AW 2014: the hybrid puff-jacket ◎2014秋冬の東京コレクションのメンズウェアトレンド：ダウン地のハイブリッド
The puffy jacket is monopolized by two major brands: Moncler and Uniqlo. They are. Both completely different but the point is the same: we wear puffy jackets to be warm, not for fashion. They are not the height if chic, they make you look like a swollen tire. This past winter was the coldest on