TSUKIKAGEYA’s EDO-PERIOD PORN AND SHABU SHABU MEAT PRINT YUKATA. RETRO GANG GONE PUNK.
春画にしゃぶしゃぶ柄って？！パンクなゆかた店「月影屋」の2012夏コレクションを発表！ Last night I dropped by Tsukikageya, a rather unique shop, to check out the new textiles for their signature “punk” yukata, cotton PJs and silk jackets. This brand makes traditional Japanese clothing with a modern-retro twist…think brash and edgy. The style is inspired by the early “yankii” or Japanese motorcycle gangs called “bosozoku” of
ねじってるなら、一風変わったなら、ゲロいなら、そりゃきっと可愛いから IF IT’S TWISTED, IF IT’S DEMENTED, IF IT’S DISGUSTING THEN IT’S SURE TO BE KAWAII.
Kawaii is an epidemic. It is everywhere. In my breakfast. On my nails. In my pro-vegetable commercials (see here). “Kawaii” has always been a part of the Japanese culture, and it sucked me in a long time ago, too (Hello Kitty seduced me with her big eyes when I was 10. Grounds for arrest!). But
WHEN TIME MOVES SO SLOW IT MORPHS YOUR CLOTHES. INNOVATION BY ANREALAGE 2012 WINTER, TOKYO.
”時間の流れ”をリアルに表すファッションって何？？斬新的なアンリアレイジの秋冬2012年コレクション”TIME”にフォーカス！ let’s take a closer look at Anrealage’s amazing 2012 fall/winer collection “Time”. I`ve flippantly named it “the Photoshop collection” (looking at it you see why) even though designer Kunihiko Morinaga never had such intentions. It’s important to see collections like Anrealage’s up close, as the brand goes to great lengths to make everything “designed”,
NICKI MINAJ WEARS TOKYO. THE WHO WHAT AND WHERE OF ALL HER HARAJUKU DUDS.
先日来日したスーパースターのニッキーミナージュが着た原宿ファッションを徹底的に紹介！ In March Nicki Minaj , aka ” Harajuku Barbie”, made her first foray into Tokyo to get in touch with fans, promote her new album “Roman Reloaded” and announce her first ever world tour dates. The trip was probably like coming back to a home after being separated at birth as she fits right
SO-EN AWARDS 2012. JAPAN’s BRIGHTEST AND MOST CREATIVE YOUNG DESIGNERS COMPETE….SEE WHAT THEY’VE GOT!
若手デザイナーならではの絶妙クリエイティビティとスキル。それを生かせる『装苑賞』2012年のトップを誇る者は誰？・・ I just got back from the SO-EN Awards, Tokyo’s most prestigious fashion award for young up and coming designers. The awards encourage creativity and avantgarde-ism and every year attendees brace for the wildest ideas that young Japanese (and exchange students from all over!) have to offer. Over the course of the year hundreds of entrants
A UTOPIA OF ANIMALS WRAPPED AROUND YOUR FINGER. SEE THE FANTASTICAL NEW JEWELRY BY JOJI KOJIMA.
若手ジュエリーデザイナーのJoji Kojimaによる指にはめられる動物ユートピア。2012年クチュールコレクションをご覧ください It’s been a year since we’ve seen jewelry sculptor Joji Kojima dazzle us with his amazing imagination in couture jewelry. And he has dazzled us numerous times previously; masks for Lady Gaga & L’eclarieur Royale, cocktail rings literally made from cocktails, and rings where he used his own skull as a pattern for a
BUT, COUTURE. NO DOUBT. ROGGYKEI 2012 SS TOKYO/OSAKA.
大阪拠点のロギーケイの”But クチュール”。2012年春夏コレクション発表。 Let’s just say it how it is: Roggykei is fucking cool. The Osaka-based brand is kickin’ it orbital style, because they have created for themselves a planet with a distinct style light-years away from anything else on the Japanese market. The newest collection “But Couture” is for spring/summer 2012 (they don’t release their collections for press
CHRISTIAN DADA UNDER PRESSURE. BACKSTAGE 2012-13 AW TOKYO.
プレッシャー感じるクリスチャンダダ・・？バックステージレポート：2012年秋冬 Oh, how it must have felt to be Christian Dada designer Masanori Morikawa (pictured above) at this moment backstage, when you are hailed as the best thing since conveyor-belt sushi and your third collection is about to be paraded in front of the world at Tokyo Fashion Week. Under pressure probably wouldn’t begin to