TATTOO STOCKINGS ARE STILL BOOMING IN JAPAN. HERE ARE SOME OF THE COOLEST (AND WEIRDEST?) FOR THIS SUMMER
タトゥータイツのブームが続く！日本発ブランドの今一番オモシロく、気になる夏ストッキングをまとめてご紹介！ Japanese girls have no qualms about showing off their gams, and while Shibuya-fashion girls tend to stick to bare legs, the Harajuku fashion set likes to cover up, usually with tights. So the tights/stocking obsession in Japan is still a big one, and since it’s summer the tattoo stockings are all over the streets.
LET ME TRANSLATE THAT FOR YOU: HOW BUSY ARE YOU?=HELLO. MARI NATSUKI ROCKS & SUNDAY HARAJUKU BRUNCH.
「忙しい？」と挨拶しがちな業界人の私たちはどこか間違ってるのかしら？気を取り戻すために週末は久々にお出かけ．． What is so wrong with saying “hi, how are you?” upon greeting people? Because in Tokyo people don’t even waste time cutting to the chase. It’s all about asking, “How busy are you?” Because when you’re busy it means you’re successful. And if you don’t feign terribly busy-ness then something might be wrong (like,
MY SOEN MAGAZINE COLUMN “LIFE IN THE 2.5 DIMENSION” EPISODE 6: DAYDREAMERS
装苑で連載中「ミーシャの２．５次元ライフ」第６話：デイドリーム公開！デイドリームって何で重要？ The next episode of 2.5 dimension life is now online at Soen so check it out! This one is about daydreaming, and I kind of lament not having the opportunity to get in my own head these days. Every minute seeks to be filled with things to do, phone calls, text messages, tweets, meetings
FROM BALLOONS TO LEGOS, NEW FASHION WORK FROM DAISY BALLOON ルーンにレゴ、デザイナー兼アーティストのDAISY BALLOONによるファッション新作がどれも目新しく刺激的。
Rie Hosokai calls herself a balloon artist, although most of her floaty sculptures take the form of dresses and gowns. So then it was a surprise to me to open up one of my favorite technology blogs this morning and see her and her partner Takashi Kawada’s work as duo “Daisy Balloon” being featured for
FLEAMADONNA, THE BLING RING, AND FAKING IT TIL YOU MAKE IT. FW 2013 TOKYO.
フリーマドンナ2013年秋冬でも反映するソフィアコポラの「ブリングリング」。転落するお嬢さん、若手スター、そして「成れるまでは真似すればいい」 Who doesn’t want to be a famous starlet? What if they are vilified in the eyes of the public, broke, and dirty? Well, too bad for the haters because studies show that once someone is famous they will always be “famous”, no matter what befalls them. The story for Fleamadonna FW 2013 is actually
PHOTOSHOOTS IN THE CRAZIEST OF PLACES….GETTING INSPIRED BY SUPERMARKET “TAMADE”
なぜ、ファッション界はフォトシュートの舞台を変わった場所にすることを好む？・・そうえいば大阪の「スーパー玉出」！ “TAMADE, that crazy supermarket”. My ears perked up. A crazy supermarket? I was in Osaka, asking for shops to visit and here my friends Shuhei and Momoko were talking about supermarkets, of all things. “It’s amazing, you’ll love it.” This is coming from the girl who had giant 3D lizard lips for an iPhone
CAN MUSIC VIDEOS BE ART? THE DARK BEAUTY OF DAVID BOWIE, SIGUR ROS, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DIRECTOR FLORIA SIGISMONDI
PVってアート？デビッドボウイ、シガーロス、ジャスティン T.等のPVを監督するフローリア・シジスモンディの美しくひねた世界観を紹介 There was a time I aspired to be a music video director, after seeing a behind-the-scenes documentary on Christina Aguilera’s video for “Fighter”. I rushed to the internet to learn how one might break into the business (know someone important) and even studied the lingo, like “treatment” (screen boards). For that video, the
INTRODUCING BUGGY, WHO’S BLOODY NOSES ARE SO TRENDY RIGHT NOW. SO SAYS KATE MOSS, ANNA WINTOUR, TOM FORD….
ケイトモス、トムフォード、アナウィンターが鼻血！日本版のアンディー？！”バギー”の描くPOPかつシニカルな絵が注目を浴びる理由。 Buggy is the Japanese Warhol, turning fashion and music icons into saleable products, and he’s pretty damn good at it. His most famous series is “Icons”, where luminaries like Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, Iris Apfel et al are given bloody noses. Their expressions make it seem like they are completely oblivious to the