A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this year. ...
Sleeping in. Breakfast in bed. Sunny brunches. Strolls in the park. Laid-back afternoon tea. Cocktails at sunset. Decadent late nights. Saturday — the word brings to mind a flurry of images associated with the first day of the weekend and the chances are, they ...
According to most business media, now is the time to act if you are thinking about buying a home. Though the Liberal Democratic Party has yet to confirm that it will go ahead with the consumption tax increases the Democratic Party of Japan passed ...
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Cuba overpowers China, winning 12-0 and advancing to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
24 Issey Miyake The bread-and-butter creations of many of today’s high-end brands are their lower-priced, low-end lines and collaborations, which have been rolling out in spades since the recession dropped its bomb on fashion (take a look at Comme des Garcons’ Black and Jimmy ...
The luxury of fashion The “Luxury in Fashion Reconsidered” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MoT) is a small but admirable attempt to illustrate how luxury has been defined through clothing from the 17th century to today. On show are grandiose pieces ...
Back to black Black can be dreary, dark and damning, but in the case of Comme des Garcons’ new line titled “Black,” it is delightful and . . . discounted. Black is a lower-priced range that features perennially popular Comme des Garcons styles in ...
Uniqlo gets an A+ for +J There may be a recession, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t afford style, thanks to the new maestro of cool, Mr. Tadashi Yanai. Wait, who? Yanai, or Mr. Uniqlo, is the president of the ubiquitous clothing chain, ...
THE opening ceremony Already successful in New York and Los Angeles, Opening Ceremony has now brought its mini-megamall concept to Tokyo, taking over eight floors of the Seibu Movida building in Shibuya. Fearless at approaching labels and artists, Opening Ceremony has spearheaded collaborations with ...
Aki and Kuzu get smart Cabaret Aki and Jackal Kuzu are known as the designers of scandalously flagrant men’s brand Gut’s Dynamite Cabarets, but with the launch of their impressive new line, JhonAG, their alter-egos may soon fade as the two are set to ...
Stylish swimmers Finnish designer Maria Hietanen wants to give the hard bodies of summer a sophisticated makeover with her Maria H. line of beachwear. “As a lover of lingerie and beachwear, I saw a gap in the market when I came here eight years ...
Getting intimate Tucked in the residential boroughs of Tokyo’s Aobadai district in Meguro is a new intimate shop, Lilid 05, where the uplifting scent of fashion wafts you through its unassuming doors. The store opened at the end of April, but the Lilid 05 ...
Bold Belgium “Avant garde” doesn’t even begin to describe some of the amazing creations that have come from the Belgian fashion capital of Antwerp over the years. Intelligent designers from the city successfully fuse fantasy with reality, and the “6+ Antwerp” exhibition at Tokyo ...
Fantasy after fashion Tina Kalivas will get to see her creations on the big screen this May, as the Australian fashion designer produced the costumes for the new Japanese film “Goemon.” The movie is based on the legend of a Robin Hood-like hero and ...
MISHA JANETTE and PAUL McINNES A Beast on the run in Harajuku If you thought the pace of Tokyo’s Harajuku was already dizzying, just see what happens now that ASICS has opened its megastore for runners in the area’s heart. “Making Harajuku Sprint!” is ...
Your visa to Fugahum “Fugahum is our imaginary country. Yes, it’s also our brand, but I always wanted to create a nation and write its history,” says Akiyoshi Mishima, the philosophical half of the fashion unit Fugahum that the designer has formed with partner ...
