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A brand-new store opened in Tokyo's Harajuku fashion district on Friday, walls lined with clothes, shoes and handbags — and with a twist: shoppers will walk away empty-handed. The GU Style Studio store — opened by Fast Retailing Co., Asia's largest clothier and the operator ...
Chinese e-commerce sites have removed Dolce & Gabbana products amid a spiraling backlash against an advertising campaign that was decried as racist by celebrities and on social media. The ads — released earlier this week to drum up interest in a Shanghai fashion show the ...
Jun Ashida, former personal designer for Empress Michiko, dies at age 88
Jun Ashida, founder of the eponymous brand and a former personal designer for Empress Michiko, died Saturday of pneumonia at his home in Tokyo. He was 88. The youngest of eight children in a doctor's family, Ashida decided to become a fashion designer after experiencing ...
Fans across the country flocked to events paying tribute to pop diva Namie Amuro on the day she chose to step out of the spotlight.
Untested in the fashion world, Victoria Beckham launched her VB label in 2008 in New York, across the Atlantic from her native Britain. A decade on, she exhibited at London Fashion Week for the first time on Sunday, in a triumphant homecoming of sorts for ...
Worn to be wild: Tokkōfuku combat uniforms
Tracing its origins back to the heady days of motorcycle gangs in the 1970s, the style is making a comeback with youth in Japan.
Tokyo's trendsetters look to dad's closet for tips
As my family got ready to go out for a fancy sushi dinner one night years ago, my dad came down the stairs wearing a T-shirt, knee-high socks, sandals and — the piece de resistance — a worn-out black fanny pack. My mom couldn't ...
Shibuya109 eyes bigger reach through partnership with South Korea e-commerce site Cafe24
The operator of South Korea's cross-border, multilingual e-commerce platform Cafe24 and Tokyo's Shibuya109 shopping mall have joined forces to invigorate global clothing exports of the two countries' fashion brands. Cafe24 Corp. said it signed a memorandum of understanding in Seoul on Monday to partner with ...
Men who want to become dads advised to wear boxers instead of tight-fitting briefs
Men trying to become a father are better off wearing loose underwear, according to a study published Thursday. Compared to men who favor snug briefs, wearers of boxer shorts had significantly higher sperm counts and concentrations, researchers reported in the journal Human Reproduction. The sperm ...
The incoherent, divisive dogma of cultural appropriation outrage
Clueless online crusaders risk doing real harm to the very cultures they claim to represent
Ivanka Trump to shutter namesake fashion brand, focus on political post
Ivanka Trump is shutting down her fashion line of dresses, shoes and handbags that became a target of political boycotts and spurred concerns about conflicts of interest after her father was elected. The U.S. president's daughter said in statement she made the decision so she ...
