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
MM6 Martin Margiela 2014FW. Avantgarde in the real world ◎リアルなアヴァンギャルドと言えばMM⑥マルジェラ2014秋冬
Sample sales are amazing. I am an muthereffin EXPERT at traversing the sample sale scene, and coming out with perhaps the weirdest, most head-scratching pieces in there. But I employ them like a pro. Take this Martin Margiela MM6 shirt piece. It’s the orange thing in the photos. It’s just a front piece of a
Junya Watanabe’s broken hair for FW 2014-15 by Tomi Kono ◎ ジュンヤワタナベ2014-15年秋冬のヘアを割ったアーティストTomi Kono
Procured some incredible photos of Tomi Kono’s work. Welcome to his world…. Comme des Garcons Junya Watanabe’s 2014-15 collection shown in Paris was a study in black textures; oodles of patchworked pieces in movement, like the bits and pieces of a broken record slowly inching in different directions. Watanabe is as stoic an entertainer as
Masaya Kushino makes beautiful beastly shoes ◎ 野性的な美しさ、串野真也のワイルドな新作シューズ
Bag and shoes designer Masaya Kushino has made a name for himself by creating elaborate shoes worthy of a museum. Now they have found a home in one; at The Kyoto Costume Institute’s “Future Beauty” which just opened, where Kushino’s never-before-seen masterpieces are on display. And they are BEASTS. See them up close… シューズとバッグデザイナーの串野真也が作り続けている観賞的な靴がミュージアムに飾っても違和感ない程美しい。それが今現実に！3.21から始まった京都服飾文化研究財団による”Future Beauty”展が京都国立美術館で彼の新傑作が発表、展示中。なんて野性的でワイルド！近くでみると…
Crash course in navigating Tokyo Fashion Week ◎東京コレクションをフルに満喫するには？
New York Fashion Week is not like Paris Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week is not like London Fashion Week. Tokyo also has it’s own way of spinning the fashion cogs, and it may be unlike any other you will (or have) experienced. If you’re in Tokyo for Mercedes Benz fashion week (which starts tomorrow),
The Samurai sleeves of TOGA SS 2014 ◎ リアルに着こなせるTOGA 2014 SS
Inspired by the new TOGA SS 2014 collection and a request from Singapore’s JUICE magazine for an “outfit pic”, I called up photographer Celia Humphries and we planned the most epic “outfit pic” we could muster. “I AM NOT A STYLE BLOGGER!” is something that was always kind of my personal tagline… Go ahead and
森ガールってどこの森に消えていった？ Effects of deforestation; Where have all the Forest Girls gone?
If a forest girl is taken out of the forest, is she still a forest girl? Can one hand clap? Where DO all of those lost socks from the laundry go??? It’s these prodding questions that keep me up late at night. And speaking of forest girl…it seems she’s now living in something that looks
The best art-themed fashion editorials from around the world Spring 2014◎この春の大トレンド ”アート” をテーマにした世界のファッションページのベストをリストアップ！
Art and fashion; there are no better bedroom partners. Thanks to the wonderfully artsy collections from Prada and Chanel who very literally took “painting and expressionism” as their themes for this Spring 2014, art is on every fashion editors’ brain. And when I say “every”, I mean EVERY. SINGLE. EDITOR. Because as it stands looking