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Misha Janette
Misha Janette graduated from the prestigious Bunka Fashion College and writes the trilingual blog Tokyo Fashion Diaries on the avant-garde style scene. She is also a stylist, TV host and designer for street-wear wig brand Plumb.
For Misha Janette's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jul 11, 2015
From women's underwear to men's street wear, Japan knows its market
Cinderellas deserve Gomi Hayakawa's Feast
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jun 13, 2015
The halycon days of summer fashion
Game, set and match Fred Perry and Mintdesigns
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
May 9, 2015
Catch the last day of Harajuku Kawaii!!; Undercover is going mad; Ultraman for the everyman
Catch the last day of Harajuku Kawaii!!
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Apr 11, 2015
Veteran designers are still as innovative as newcomers
Prada's little sister is all grown up
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 28, 2015
Tokyo fashion week: Womenswear celebrates an eclectic lineup; menswear draws inspiration from the street
Womenswear collections showcased in mid-March for the fall/winter 2015-16 season were decidedly eclectic in composition, including designs that were as street-savvy as they were cute.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 28, 2015
Akiko Shinoda: 'Waste all your time you intend to waste while you're still young'
Fashion contact Akiko Shinoda on her first Harajuku street brand and Cyndi Lauper
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Mar 13, 2015
Put on your fashion face and get ready for Tokyo fashion week
One of the hottest fashion items to come out of Japan recently isn't what you may expect it to be. Moisturizing face masks, a long-time part of Japanese women's beauty routine,have been getting a makeover. While most still resemble plastic-surgery post-op gauze, now you can also find ones that make you look like a monster, animal or even a member of KISS. It's become part of the "costume play" craze that has seen anime and manga seeping into mainstream style agendas.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Feb 13, 2015
Valentines specials and ways to treat yourself
Valentine's is all about the man
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jan 9, 2015
Yohji Yamamoto — men, women and unisex
Yohji Yamamoto has certainly been busy, with collaborations flying off the shelves and new lines making debuts. Its partnership with baseball-cap brand New Era has been particularly buzz-worthy, with the brand's 59FIFTY caps and backpacks emblazoned with the Yohji logo selling out across the country. The newest collection adds to the lineup mutton dog-ear flaps and "day" backpacks in black (priced ¥15,000-¥20,000).
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Dec 27, 2014
20 Questions: best answers of 2014
Japan Times On Sunday contributors select the responses that made them laugh loudest over the past 12 months
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Dec 12, 2014
Fashion goes festive for the holiday season
Erimaki Sox collars the market
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2014
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo: young blood
Ten years have now passed since Tokyo first strutted its stuff on the international catwalk and yet the metropolis still lacks the pulling power of rivals such as Milan, New York and Paris. As if the domestic industry didn't have enough on its plate, the wheels threatened to come off the spring/summer 2015 edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo even before it got off the ground, with Typhoon Vongfong bearing down on the capital at the beginning of the week. Fortunately, the storm turned out to be something of a damp squib as far as Tokyo was concerned, giving those in the industry the opportunity to showcase their collections in the clear skies that followed.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2014
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo: packing a punch
The womenswear showcased during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo marched to its own beat, with eye-opening collections coming from far-flung ends of the fashion spectrum. From stark minimalism to '80s idols, the collections delivered a pinata of fashion treats, and since the seasons change faster than you can say oshare (fashionable), let's jump right into the very best of the best.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 25, 2014
Yuichi Yoshi: 'Stop being so shy, have some courage and take some action'
My name means 'The best of all the boys,' but I was raised completely opposite to that sentiment.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Sep 12, 2014
Adventurous fashion abounds this month
Zadig & Voltaire is ready to rock in Aoyama
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jul 11, 2014
Summer's here — yukata, sales and back-to-school satchels
Mintdesigns' refreshing yukata
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jun 9, 2014
Young designer opportunities, plus new lines for older brands
Designers, get ready to get crazy
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
May 12, 2014
Harajuku and Omotesando: Where pop and luxury fashion are friendly neighbors
A Fashionable 'pearing'
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Apr 7, 2014
Anrealage and Christian Dada round up Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Tokyo
The Anrealage experiment continues Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Tokyo wrapped up with some off-schedule shows at the end of March, which included popular local brand Anrealage.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 29, 2014
Fashion Week Tokyo: open season
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo, held March 17-22, once again brings the hautest of the haute out of the woodwork.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
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