Anna Antoniades in Nakameguro
As British designer Anna Antoniades gives a tour around Tokyo's ubercool Nakameguro, where she lives, she's obviously in her element. The Bohemian cafes, the boutiques clustered around Meguro River and the idiosyncratic milieu of the area reflects the aesthetic that she applies to her charming one-of-a-kind handmade garments.
A graduate of Goldsmiths College, London, Antoniades designs dramatic clothes with excess folds, pleats and drapes, all done in natural fabrics, and it is clear that her father's Greek background has had some bearing on her fashion ideology: Her architectural — almost theatrical — designs play around with the notion of how the body, space and form interrelate. When you see the capes and delicate tops with hidden pockets you can understand why her clothes are gradually developing her fan base in Japan.