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		<title>Louis Vuitton celebrates it muses, while Control Bear heads its own store</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Vuitton is celebrating six of its designer's "muses" in an interactive exhibition at the Tokyo Station Hotel. "Timeless Muses" honors supermodel Kate Moss, film director Sofia Coppola, French actress Catherine Deneuve, novelist Françoise Sagan, architect Charlotte Perriand and, to bring the "timeless" into context, 19th-century French Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III.]]></description>
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		<title>Color-changing fashion, Hedi Slimane&#8217;s first Saint Laurent collection, 99%IS&#8217; unusual &#8220;macs&#8221; and newcomers to Harajuku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["A Color Un Color," the second show in a "Philosophical Fashion" series of exhibitions at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, is featuring one of the most exciting brands to come out of Japan in the past decade: Anrealage.]]></description>
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		<title>This month&#8217;s genuine pearls of fashion wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pearls of fashion win a Guinness World Record Bridalwear designer Yumi Katsura is known for her fantastical couture creations, and now she&#8217;s got some extra cachet thanks to a Guinness World Record that comes with quite some luster. Last year, Katsura created a gown embellished with 13,262 pearls, now recognized as the largest number ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk 100 percent kawaii!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before the mayor of Shibuya announced pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu as an official ambassador of kawaii culture, Sebastian Masuda, her art director, had been on a mission to spread &#8220;kawaii culture&#8221; across the world, advocating it as not only a potent source of Japan&#8217;s emerging soft power, but also as a cultural revolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prabal Gurung takes to the sky, Swedish style lands in Osaka and NukeMe creates turbulent fabrics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prabal Gurung is being tapped to design new uniforms for All Nippon Airways group&#8217;s 60th anniversary last year. ANA surely chose New York based-Gurung in a bid to show its global aspirations, and it helps that he is one of the hottest commodities on the market, as a young up-and-comer with some major notches on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retro makes a comeback, while subcultures seep into high fashion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Design Festa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phillip Lim&#8217;s new collection speeds ahead When New York-based designer Phillip Lim showed up in Tokyo last week, it brought out major fashion players but raised eyebrows at the same time. What was the special occasion? &#8220;Well, we are celebrating the fifth anniversary of our store here,&#8221; Lim said. &#8220;But on top of that, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyary Pamyu Pamyu on a mission to spread Japan&#8217;s kawaii culture</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/04/30/style/kyary-pamyu-pamyu-on-a-mission-to-spread-kawaii-culture/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kyary-pamyu-pamyu-on-a-mission-to-spread-kawaii-culture</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asobi System]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Cool" may have been the official buzzword, but if the chants of the 20,000 strong audience at a recent festival are to be believed, that word has been ousted by a new one: "kawaii." ]]></description>
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		<title>Dempagumi.inc: Akihabara&#8217; kawaii-guru idols</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dempagumi.inc have become the faces of a new generation of Akihabara pop music, as well as a force to be reckoned with in the fashion world. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion idols of all stripes rock it in Cool Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Jacobs&#8217; playful sides goes on display at Idol Marc Jacobs is one of the most recognized designers in American fashion today, but before enjoying an illustrious career he caught a break in Tokyo. Part of his creative prowess is on display at an exhibition now showing at the Idol gallery in the capital&#8217;s Aoyama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Week Tokyo: The menswear question — to be showy or simplify?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February bankruptcy of Takeshi Osumi&#8217;s seminal brand Phenomenon, and its departure from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo (FWT) before this season&#8217;s March 17-23 shows, left a chasm apparent to all. And indeed, it&#8217;s a mystery who may be able to fill the rather large shoes of the man who added such spice to the runway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plenty to enjoy as fashion week approaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Italian denim magnate Diesel and EDUN, the niche eco-friendly brand developed by musician Bono and his wife, have something in common — a love of Africa and its artistic scene. It makes sense then that last year they announced DIESEL+EDUN, a denim collection, &#8220;Born in Africa and worn by a new generation of creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mastermind moves on, American Apparel is at home in Japan and Primitive London takes a trip to Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a bittersweet finale for the famed Japanese fashion brand Mastermind, as it officially ends its 15-year run with the release of its 2013 spring/summer — and final — collection.]]></description>
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		<title>Here comes Fred</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Segal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year will see the arrival of a formidable new force in the Japanese fashion market. Perhaps best known for being a go-to for Hollywood stars, Fred Segal is a trend-setting California clothing and lifestyle goods retailer, which in its 50-year history had never planned to expand beyond Los Angeles. That is until it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion&#8217;s Night Out hits Japan&#8217;s second-largest city, with another all-star cast of names</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misha Janette  and Samuel Thomas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular Fashion&#8217;s Night Out festival — helmed by Vogue magazine and held in the top fashion cities of the world every September — is about to be replicated in Osaka, Japan&#8217;s second-largest city. Taking place on Dec. 15 inside the city&#8217;s sprawling Umeda Hankyu department store, the festivities will start at 2 p.m. with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designer Cynthia Rowley hits the double digits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York-based designer Cynthia Rowley celebrated her brand&#8217;s 10th year in Japan with a special talk show and cocktail dinner for VIP guests during Tokyo Fashion Week. The Barrington, Illinois, native&#8217;s name has long been on the lips of American sportswear fans with her bright and feminine takes on casual-to-cocktail-style clothing. In Japan, the &#8220;Rowley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>touchMe event puts fashion within reach of all</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Menswear looks hot to trot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men were quick to put their best feet forward at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo, with a heavy concentration of light and minimalist sportswear that proved popular on the catwalks. The menswear element of this Oct. 13-20 event may have opened with the Facetasm show on Oct. 14, where Hiromichi Ochiai&#8217;s blend of cultures and hyper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Context the key at alt fashion fest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the Fashion Week Tokyo models pounding polished catwalks in the glitzy Hikarie building in shopping-central Shibuya, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in Paris. However, since Mercedes-Benz&#8217;s debut as a major sponsor this time last year, now three seasons ago, designers uncomfortable with the rising costs associated with the new FWT venue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parco puts the spotlight on Shibuya&#8217;s evolving youth culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Department store Parco is aiming to fill the vacuum created by the rapidly declining gyaru (gal) culture that used to define the Shibuya area of Tokyo. By taking aspects of the otaku (geek) culture of Akihabara and re-imagining them through art and fashion in the context of a popular shopping district, it is presenting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louis Vuitton still going dotty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fans of French luxury brand Louis Vuitton are still seeing spots before their eyes. The brand&#8217;s latest collection with Yayoi Kusama comes after a string of highly successful artist collaborations that began in 2002 with Takashi Murakami. It really was only a matter of time before Kusama&#8217;s idiosyncratic polka dots made their way onto the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parisienne cool reaches Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isabel Marant, the queen of French haute-casual wear, has finally opened her first shop in Japan, right off of Tokyo&#8217;s Omotesando promenade. When it comes to French style, chic and sleek uniforms of black usually come to mind. Parisian designer Marant&#8217;s collections, however, are far funkier — a hip hodgepodge of color and form. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beautiful future of fashion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion&#8221; exhibition first showed at the Barbican Art Gallery in London in 2010 and traveled to the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2011. Highly acclaimed by art critics and fashion fans, the show is finally making a pit stop in Japan, at Tokyo&#8217;s Museum of Contemporary Art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Totally wrapped in Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asked to name a seminal New York City-born musician with an intrepid preference for over-the-top fashion, and Lady Gaga would surely the first name to roll off the tongue. But there&#8217;s another female musician from the city who influenced global fashion with her unique taste in stage costumes: Yeah Yeah Yeahs&#8217; Karen O&#8217;s colorful finger-painting-meets-punk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issey Miyake&#8217;s innovations beat the Brits to win the Design Museum of London fashion award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colloquially called &#8220;The Oscars of Design,&#8221; the Design Museum of London Design Awards are prestigious accolades given in six categories to the most innovative and inspiring designs of the year — and this year&#8217;s top honors in the fashion category went to Japan&#8217;s own Issey Miyake and his team of boundary-pushing researchers dubbed the &#8220;Reality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixing and matching wardrobes for Japan&#8217;s The Reality Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reality Show, a Tokyo-based bilingual glossy magazine, is nothing like the TV genre it borrows its name from. Or is it? For the photo shoots, a select crew of tastemakers — Japan&#8217;s newest young generation of fashionistas — are given items from a luxury brand to mix with pieces from their own and friends&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21st-century schizoid menswear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never before has the creative schism at the heart of Japanese menswear been more evident than during the recent Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo. The official opening of the week may have been marked by the futuristically utopian Mercedes-Benz Presents show from Yuima Nakazato, whose avant-garde vision was likely lost on some of the corporate sponsors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chanel&#8217;s little black jacket</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1983, Karl Lagerfeld has steered Parisian brand Chanel as the world&#8217;s reigning barometer of chic. Now he&#8217;s about to bring a little bit of that haute charm to Tokyo with a series of events beginning on March 21. First up is an exhibition of photographs depicting fashion and film luminaries sporting Chanel&#8217;s iconic black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returns, regroups and debuts: Versace, Tokyo Runway, Julius, K-fashion, Alexander Wang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Medusa is back In 2009, Italian fashion house Versace closed its four Japan stores and left the Japanese market, citing a need for the luxury brand to reinvent its image and restrategize its business operations. Now, its famous Medusa logo is making an official comeback. It appears prominently on T-shirts embroidered and embellished in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepping in the right fashion-forward directions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening ceremony for Kenzo Kenzo is one of Japan&#8217;s most long-standing fashion houses, so it is understandable that it has undergone quite a few changes in its 41-year history &#8212; especially since Kenzo Takada himself retired in 1999. This year it is embracing another change, and it comes in the form of two new chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Menswear designers play it by the book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Followers of men&#8217;s fashion were close to getting exactly what they wanted at this month&#8217;s inaugural Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo, with many designers &#8212; while mindful of the uncertainly in the air &#8212; pitching their collections directly at their existing fan base and seemingly keen to return to their core aesthetics. That trend was typified [...]]]></description>
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