Politics & Diplomacy
Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Dec 11, 2012
Fashion's Night Out hits Japan's second-largest city, with another all-star cast of names
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
The popular Fashion’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’s second-largest city. Taking place on Dec. 15 inside the city’s sprawling Umeda ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Nov 13, 2012
Designer Cynthia Rowley hits the double digits
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
New York-based designer Cynthia Rowley celebrated her brand’s 10th year in Japan with a special talk show and cocktail dinner for VIP guests during Tokyo Fashion Week. The Barrington, Illinois, native’s name has long been on the lips of American sportswear fans with her ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Jul 10, 2012
The beautiful future of fashion
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
The “Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion” 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 ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Jun 12, 2012
Totally wrapped in Joy
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
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’s another female musician from the city who influenced global fashion with her unique ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE May 8, 2012
Issey Miyake's innovations beat the Brits to win the Design Museum of London fashion award
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
Colloquially called “The Oscars of Design,” 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’s top honors in the fashion category went to Japan’s own ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Apr 10, 2012
Mixing and matching wardrobes for Japan's The Reality Show
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
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’s newest young generation of fashionistas — are given items from a ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Nov 8, 2011
Birthdays, debuts and memorials, all in the name of fashion
by Misha Janette
Cavalli makes first trip to Japan When it comes to animal prints, skins and other wild bona-fide “Italian” fashion, Roberto Cavalli is the master. On Nov. 1, Cavalli made his first visit to Japan to celebrate the opening of his new flagship boutique in ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Apr 14, 2011
Bouncing back and reaching higher
by Misha Janette and Paul Mcinnes
A blast of fashion literature It’s been a tough couple of years for Yohji Yamamoto. Arguably Japan’s most prominent fashion designer, Yamamoto, who broke into the European fashion arena in the early 1980s, filed for bankruptcy in 2009 after years of aggressive expansion in ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Mar 10, 2011
Fashion streaming in and out of Japan
Fairy-tale beginnings RED Valentino, an affordable offshoot line of the Italian couture label, has launched its first flagship shop in Tokyo’s Aoyama district. Behind the modern glass-fronted exterior, wall-length oval “Snow White” mirrors, iron castle-like door handles and vintage memento boxes are matched with ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Feb 10, 2011
Blue moon rising over Tokyo
by Misha Janette
Comme des Garcons’ Marunouchi: no longer alone Comme des Garcons is renowned for keeping the fashion public on its toes by opening up many temporary “guerrilla” stores around the world, but it’s only once in a neon-blue moon that we get a new permanent ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Jan 13, 2011
Ground control, we have a fashionable lift-off
by Misha Janette and Paul Mcinnes
Jean-Paul Gaultier’s space “This is space! It’s another world!” exclaimed Jean-Paul Gaultier at the opening of his new space-themed boutique in Ginza, Tokyo, in December. In extremely high spirits and sporting a space suit complete with helmet, the designer was greeting friends and press ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION STYLEWISE Dec 9, 2010
A toast to Marc Jacobs, Pierre Cardin, Issey Miyake, Diesel
by Misha Janette
Jacobs Tokyo flagship: great styling, inside and out The opening of the new Marc Jacobs’ Tokyo flagship may have been on hold for several years, but it’s finally come through with enough buzz to put a bee to shame. With the new location in ...