Oct 28, 2012

Fashion Week Tokyo powers ahead

by Misha Janette

From start to finish, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo’s 2013 spring/summer collections hit new heights, literally, as the catwalk parades were staged way up in the event’s new home at the Hikarie shopping tower in city center Shibuya. It’s now seven years since the inaugural ...

Context the key at alt fashion fest

Oct 28, 2012

Context the key at alt fashion fest

by Samuel Thomas

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’s debut as a major sponsor this time last year, now three seasons ago, designers ...

Urban hogs dig Setagaya

| Jan 18, 2009

Urban hogs dig Setagaya

by Tomoko Otake

From the outside Yukihiko Yoshioka’s property could easily be mistaken for a traditional Japanese-style house with a small garden. After all, this is Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward, a premier residential neighborhood in central Tokyo, and Yoshioka’s property is only a few minutes’ walk from the ...