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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
Oct 14, 2011
Where have all the gyaru gone?
When model Nozomi Sasaki stepped out onto the catwalk at last month's Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC) fashion event, a wave of sighs rippled through the 30,000 mostly young girls in attendance. Sasaki is one of the most popular models in Japan right now, and her presence was essential at this year's fest, a six-hour spectacle of fashion, music and film held at the Saitama Super Arena. The only people noticeably absent from TGC? The gyaru (gals) that helped create it.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Aug 9, 2011
The evolution of menswear, Matobu, denim, Harajuku style and TGC
Going from red to blue If "Harajuku style" means gaggles of gothic-lolitas and 1970s-style punks to you, then it's time to catch up.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Jul 12, 2011
Going gaga for Tominaga, mori girls, eco-fashion, Final Home and the Lady herself
Going Gaga for design In the last few weeks, Lady Gaga used her celebrity influence to bring the world's attention back to Japan and its March 11 disaster recovery efforts with her promotion of the MTV Video Music Aid concert.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Jun 14, 2011
A season for accolades, milestones and new frontiers
Florence and Kyoto unite to celebrate Gucci's 90 years Revered luxury brand Gucci is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year with a special traveling exhibition in Japan that highlights its prowess in craftsmanship. Starting at the famed Kinkaku-ji Golden Temple in Kyoto, "Gucci: 90 years" showcases a selection of artisanal goods from the brand's archives, as well as some of the traditional arts of Kyoto.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 17, 2011
Designers still show collections after Japan Fashion Week cancels
Four days after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake on March 11, Japan Fashion Week, scheduled to take place March 18-25, was unceremoniously canceled with an announcement on its official website. It sent a small wave of panic through the industry as it became increasingly unclear how the fashion season in Tokyo would take shape. Six drawn-out weeks and only a handful of independently held shows later, fashion's 2011 fall/winter season in Tokyo drew to a close.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
May 10, 2011
The girls, the heart, the virility and the ingenuity of fashion
Let's hear it for the girls: Fashion, music and celebrities The Girls Award, a twice-yearly event not unlike the already massively popular Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC), proves that the trend of daylong fashion festivals is picking up speed.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Apr 14, 2011
Bouncing back and reaching higher
A blast of fashion literature
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Apr 3, 2011
Japan's 'La Gaijine'
On Francoise Morechand's living room table there sits a book once owned by a samurai in the Edo Period (1603-1867) that she says she has been studying.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Feb 10, 2011
Blue moon rising over Tokyo
Comme des Garcons' Marunouchi: no longer alone
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jan 13, 2011
Ground control, we have a fashionable lift-off
Jean-Paul Gaultier's space
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Dec 9, 2010
A toast to Marc Jacobs, Pierre Cardin, Issey Miyake, Diesel
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.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Nov 11, 2010
New inroads for Louboutin, Rag & Bone, Nike-Undercover, K-Swiss
Louboutin digs his signature heels into flagship Ginza space Christian Louboutin, arguably the most famous shoe designer in the world, was in Tokyo early this month to christen the opening of his very first free-standing boutique in Tokyo and Japan. The space is a three-story building that fits snugly into Ginza's flashy 6-chome district. The bottom two floors are teeming with the designer's signature red-soled women's shoes, with a smattering of handbags and men's shoes as well.
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 31, 2010
Tipping a hat to Japan creations
I was feeling an itch to don a bonnet.
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 31, 2010
JFW edges into Asia spotlight
Oct. 15 through 24 brought to Tokyo an autumnal shift in the weather — and the latest sartorial flurry known as Japan Fashion Week's spring/summer collections on show for the world to see.
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 31, 2010
'Japan Fashion Now' at FIT in NYC
NEW YORK — A t first it was a familiar scene, par for the course in the Tokyo shopping hubs of Harajuku and Omotesando: There was iconic Comme des Garcons, Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto, flanked by a smattering of Gothic Lolitas and punks.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Oct 14, 2010
A feast fit for fashion
Fashion week for the public It's that time again, when fashion makers and breakers take all that creativity they have pent up for the past six months and let it loose in the form of Japan Fashion Week (JFW).
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Sep 9, 2010
Fashion that blooms, rocks, roars and parties
Blooming T-shirts!
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Aug 12, 2010
Hello to Helmut Lang's new tastemaker, jevous enprie!, Lady Gaga's cobbler and hobo style
Naoki Takizawa: A new knight to represent Helmut Lang
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Jun 10, 2010
Fashion that's global, customized, arty and everything
Rebecca Taylor's new look
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 11, 2010
Outlook cloudy as Japan Fashion Week turns 10 in style
Japan Fashion Week made it to its 10th birthday in Tokyo Midtown just recently with a lineup stronger than ever — though its growth from here on may be stunted due to a looming budget crisis and failure to ride on the rolling wave of Asian consumption.
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.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
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.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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