Economy
Fed to start tapering bond purchases this year: Bernanke
The Federal Reserve maintains its $85 billion-a-month asset purchase program, but says it could begin scaling back later this year.
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: DESIGN May 29, 2012
A spring jewelry collection
by Jean Snow
Kouichi Okamoto of Kyouei Design, who usually creates household items, has launched his first line of jewelry — and of course, it’s not your average collection of fashion accessories. The series is titled “form of the function,” and all the pieces are made from ...
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: DESIGN Apr 24, 2012
Rethinks that reboot familiar concepts
by Jean Snow
Pretty as a doll Offering new interpretations of traditional Japanese crafts has been a running trend these past few years, and Nosigner, one of our favorite designers, has taken a popular decorative Japanese tradition and given it a modern, functional spin. Produced for the ...
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 Apr 8, 2012
New York fashion gurus applaud 'second-tier' Tokyo
by Paul Mcinnes
As part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo, Dr. Joyce F. Brown, president of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City, and Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT — and curator of the groundbreaking “Japan Fashion ...
Style & Design Apr 8, 2012
21st-century schizoid menswear
by Samuel Thomas
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 ...
Style & Design Apr 8, 2012
'Anything goes' unites women's collections
by Misha Janette
What exactly is Tokyo fashion? Is it a pastiche of color and gobs of shapes so outrageous it’s like we’re being punked? Or is it the modern, conservative look that is an actual mainstay on the streets? That was the million-dollar question again at ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION Mar 13, 2012
Chanel's little black jacket
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
Since 1983, Karl Lagerfeld has steered Parisian brand Chanel as the world’s reigning barometer of chic. Now he’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 ...
Style & Design | ON: DESIGN Feb 28, 2012
A stylish support crew for the home
by Jean Snow
TRE chic and very sturdy We’ve long been fans of Keiji Ashizawa, both as a product designer and architect, and we are particularly taken by his TRE sofa side-table for Duende. On the compact side (42 x 42 x 47.5 cm), it has an ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION Feb 14, 2012
Returns, regroups and debuts: Versace, Tokyo Runway, Julius, K-fashion, Alexander Wang
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
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 ...