Q-Pot dishes out more sweet stuff

Q-Pot, purveyors of ultra cute and occasionally disconcertingly realistic sweet-themed accessories, is marking its 15th anniversary with its very first fashion line: Q-Pot Dress. Tadaaki Wakamatsu, the designer of the jewelry line, is himself taking on the challenge by channeling his approach to accessories — which has seen him transform everything from wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets) to British afternoon-tea motifs — into clothing.

In time for start of spring, the theme is strawberries and a play on the Japanese word for the fruit, "ichigo," which phonetically sounds like the numbers one (ichi) and five (go) — a perfect match for the 15th anniversary.