Tag - fashion

 
 

FASHION

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 26, 2013
Fashion that makes art more accessible
It is a sartorial surprise of the most poetic variety. Robert Montgomery — artist, writer, fashion collaborator — turns around, slips off his coat and flips up the collar of his crisp white shirt.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 22, 2013
Music and models come together to show off Fukuoka's fashion
What do you get when you mix musicians, models and five dancing kids? It's quite an impressive collection — in fact it's the Fukuoka Asia Collection (FACo).
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Mar 12, 2013
Plenty to enjoy as fashion week approaches
The Italian denim magnate Diesel and EDUN, the niche eco-friendly brand developed by musician Bono and his wife, have something in common — a love of Africa and its artistic scene. It makes sense then that last year they announced DIESEL+EDUN, a denim collection, "Born in Africa and worn by a new generation...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 7, 2013
Edward Steichen's great American Dream
“I don't think that many people in Japan know who Edward Steichen is,” says curator Miki Tsukada in a surprisingly honest comment about visitors to the Setagaya Art Museum's current exhibition.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 5, 2013
Kate Spade Saturday chooses Tokyo for its first flagship
New York label Kate Spade, long famous for its trademark high-end handbags and accessories, launches a new lifestyle brand in its biggest non-U.S. market.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 21, 2013
The future of fabrics woven with the past
The textile work of Junichi Arai is renowned for its complexity and innovation. Often three-dimensional in nature, his fabrics appear as undulating landscapes of puckering, crumpling, puffs, pleats and protruding felted yarns. Many of them glimmer with metallic or translucent sheens, some seem understated...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Feb 19, 2013
Mastermind moves on, American Apparel is at home in Japan and Primitive London takes a trip to Tokyo
It's a bittersweet finale for the famed Japanese fashion brand Mastermind, as it officially ends its 15-year run with the release of its 2013 spring/summer — and final — collection.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 1, 2013
Sales surge for men's fashion magazines
In a sluggish publishing market, men's fashion mags stay in style.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Dec 26, 2012
Cat girls and more: Japan's fashion trends of 2012
Cat ears and mushroom games: What the kids in Japan were into in 2012.
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 28, 2012
Fashion Week Tokyo powers ahead
From start to finish, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo's 2013 spring/summer collections hit new heights, literally, as the catwalk parades were staged way up in the event's new home at the Hikarie shopping tower in city center Shibuya.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 28, 2012
Context the key at alt fashion fest
Watching the Fashion Week Tokyo models pounding polished catwalks in the glitzy Hikarie building in shopping-central Shibuya, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in Paris.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 27, 2012
Bicqlo – Bic Camera meets Uniqlo – is here!
Uniqlo and Bic Camera cross-pollinate and make a baby.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Jul 18, 2012
Today's J-blip: Suteteko
Hot under the collar? Cool down with suteteko.
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Jul 11, 2012
Today's J-blip: K-Pocke pocket
Your gadgets may be secure, but we're not sure what the K-Pocke does for your style.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
May 30, 2012
Boyish style raises questions about gender roles
Men dressing up as women and women dressing up as men — where will it all lead?
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / Japan Pulse
Feb 2, 2012
The bags that came from another dimension
Stay creative and carry bags that push the boundaries of perception. You're guaranteed to turn a few heads.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 17, 2011
'Irving Penn and Issey Miyake: Visual Dialogue'
21_21 Design Sight
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / Japan Pulse
Jul 28, 2011
Fukulog shares its looks with Asia
Street fashion goes social on Fukulog, a site that's attracting attracting the attention of fashionistas in Japan and beyond.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 24, 2011
Come all ye hoarders and swappers
Need some shoes .. or get rid of some shoes? Have we got some sites for you.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Dec 20, 2010
Trends in Japan 2010: yama boom
2010 was the year in which young women, clad in brightly colored Gore-Tex, were drawn to mountain hikes and natural power sports.

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