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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
Apr 11, 2010
Identity quests unite labels
Maybe the abundance of "safe" fashion on the runways at the 2010 Autumn/Winter Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo last month was the designers' way of spinning themselves a taffeta and jersey-cotton cocoon from which they hope to emerge next season with their businesses and egos left intact.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Apr 8, 2010
Return of Yohji, AMBUSH bling, LIMI feu bargains and Tokyo Girls
Coming back in style
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Feb 11, 2010
Style that's top, sweet, masculine, temporary and trademarked
Topshop stays on top
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Jan 14, 2010
Affordable Issey Miyake, Guild Prime, mook freebies, A&F in Japan and men's briefs
24 Issey Miyake
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Dec 10, 2009
Luxuriating at MoT and Vulcanize, customizing at Nike and economizing at Venus Fort
The luxury of fashion
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Nov 12, 2009
Discount Comme de Garcons, thermo threads, extreme styles and bohemian flair
Back to black
Japan Times
LIFE
Nov 8, 2009
Fashion fantasy meets form
With Japan Fashion Week shows now running concurrently with the Tokyo International Film Festival, it was hard sometimes not to liken the collections to films.
Japan Times
LIFE
Nov 8, 2009
JFW bucks the trend
For six flurried days from Oct. 19, Tokyo's ritzy Midtown complex area hosted a flock of excited fashionistas for the ninth biannual Japan Fashion Week.
Japan Times
LIFE
Nov 8, 2009
Matohu duo open up
Two hours late to the audition, a leggy model scrambled in to Matohu's showroom. After she presented her portfolio of photos to the designers and performed a short runway strut, she picked up her things, gave a bow and quickly left.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Oct 8, 2009
Fashion rethinks, rebrands and reasserts itself in the recession
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.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Sep 10, 2009
Time for openings, a night out and second-hand style
THE opening ceremony
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Aug 13, 2009
Variations on Dynamite Cabarets, Tiger, togas, Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garcons
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 be reverently known as just Aki and Kuzu.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 23, 2009
Fashion Rio and the casual lifestyle
A teensy-weensy, zebra-striped, strapless bikini was just one of the many sexy little numbers worn by Brazilian beauties as they energetically bounced — one step short of a samba — down the catwalks of Fashion Rio in Rio de Janeiro last month.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Jul 9, 2009
Maria H. at the beach, Peaches in Japan, denim art at Diesel and limited editions at Gap
Stylish swimmers Finnish designer Maria Hietanen wants to give the hard bodies of summer a sophisticated makeover with her Maria H. line of beachwear.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Jun 11, 2009
Fragrant fashions, high-brow specs, Vogue in 3-D, and Tokyo's own
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 brand itself is also fairly new, only now in its second season. The label's concept is based on perfume, or the idea that a certain scent can become associated with a woman, much like styles of fashion do (hence the name's nudge at Chanel 5).
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 21, 2009
Fashion up from Down Under
When Myf Shepherd, the next "It girl" model, stepped out onto the runway at Rosemount Australia Fashion Week in a slinky jumper, it wasn't only camera flashes that lit up the room — so did the glow of computer screens and handhelds. Not only did pens record notes like lightning on paper — keyboards and Blackberrys followed digital suit. A conspicuously mixed group of fashion editors and bloggers, the Vogues next to the Tweeters, were all treated as VIPs and asked to share the same golden front row that is usually reserved for the purveyors of print.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
May 14, 2009
Say hello to Belgium's best, aptform, the Land of Tomorrow and Forever 21
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 Opera City Art Gallery till June 28 celebrates such Belgian creators by presenting nearly 60 of their designs.
Japan Times
LIFE / JAPAN FASHION WEEK
Apr 12, 2009
Designers bid to shrug off woes
The global slump's impact on the fashion world was on everyone's lips during Japan Fashion Week, as it has been around the world since last fall.
Japan Times
LIFE / JAPAN FASHION WEEK
Apr 12, 2009
Focus on: Bryanboy
Meet Bryanboy, a breakout celebrity blogger who is known for a dainty swagger but a fierce penchant for all that is fashion. The Manila-based 27-year-old Filipino (right) has become an international sensation with his blog, which has produced a legion of fans, a Marc Jacobs bag named after him, and an in-the-works documentary for MTV Japan — not to mention the hundreds of thousands of daily hits to his site, Bryanboy.com.
Japan Times
LIFE / JAPAN FASHION WEEK
Apr 12, 2009
Tokyo hots up for autumn / winter '09
The length of a fashion show averages about 10 minutes, a short span during which design prodigies can be born while others fail, dragging small fortunes into fashion oblivion with them.
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.
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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