Tag - fashion

 
 

FASHION

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 10, 2020
Uniqlo sees worst drop in overseas sales in decade amid Hong Kong unrest and South Korea row
Political flare-ups in Asia are putting the brakes on Fast Retailing Co.'s overseas momentum, as the Uniqlo operator reported the worst decline in its quarterly revenue in a decade for its international segment.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 23, 2019
Japan's fashion brands look to meet new consumer standards
As the festive season encourages consumers to splash out and treat themselves, there's both good and bad news in the fashion industry.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 11, 2019
Mina Perhonen: Fashion has a life of its own
Mina Perhonen's emotive approach to fashion highlights artisanship, eco-friendliness and our natural desire to connect and remember the past.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 2, 2019
Japan's end-of-year fashion ups and downs
As the year ends, Japan's fashion landscape finds itself facing big changes in street brands, department stores and sales tactics.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Nov 23, 2019
Akira Isogawa: Australia's darling of fashion
'I understand how such rules are necessary and help Japan to function as efficiently as it does. But I'm a rule breaker, and that's permitted here in Australia. It's a real relief.' — Akira Isogawa, fashion designer
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 27, 2019
When street style eclipses the runway
Tokyo fashion week's battle for identity has always been between that of the runway and the fashion on streets — has the event finally found a happy medium?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2019
Forever 21 files for bankruptcy, adding to retail apocalypse
Forever 21 Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection, adding another big fashion merchant to the tally of retailers who couldn't cope with high rents and heavy competition.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 29, 2019
Kenzo Takada adds to a legacy of operatic style
Since his official retirement from the clothing brand Kenzo in 1999, Kenzo Takada has taken on interiors, accessories and now costume design.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 29, 2019
Tokyo's fashion week gets a Japan rebrand
As the new sponsor of Tokyo's fashion week, e-commerce giant Rakuten may appear lowbrow — but in times of rising subculture trends, that could work in its favor.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2019
Forever 21 to pull out of Japan by late October
The Japanese unit of fast fashion retailer Forever 21 Inc. said Wednesday it will close all 14 stores in the country and its online shop by the end of October amid intensifying competition with other online apparel retailers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 20, 2019
Young Chinese women give tradition a nod by wearing Hanfu costumes
Li Doudou's gray kitten squeezes in next to her as she sits painstakingly applying makeup and putting up her hair in a bun adorned with elaborate ornaments.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 10, 2019
Fashion is a game with a dress code to crack
Fashion can be identified as a game: The rules are not clear, but there are conducts to be observed, codes to be broken, winners, losers and, finally, stylistic exhaustion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 4, 2019
Billionaire Uniqlo founder Tadashi Yanai wants a woman to succeed him
Tadashi Yanai, Fast Retailing Co.’s 70-year-old billionaire founder, said he would prefer to be succeeded by a woman, adding it would be better for Asia’s largest retailer.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Aug 31, 2019
Nicole Bargwanna: A different style of living
Founder of Tokyo-based fashion PR company explains how she could move from the bustling metropolis to the U.K. countryside without compromising business.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2019
What will you be wearing when 2030 rolls around?
Silicon Valley needs to transform our closets the way it transformed our desktops.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2019
Meghan guest edits British Vogue, featuring 'Forces for Change' women
Meghan, wife of Britain's Prince Harry, has chosen to feature 15 women she considers "Forces for change" on the cover of the September issue of British Vogue that she guest edited, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 21, 2019
Untapping the power that lies between fashion and costume
"Fashion and costume can offer freedom, protection, power. Sometimes they can even change the world."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Jul 10, 2019
The man behind some of Japan's most stylish denim has one main rule: fabric first
Mehervan Sethi began promoting Japanese denim as a way to give back to the country that has 'done so much for me and my family.'
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2019
Hot-spring resorts debate allowing tattooed tourists ahead of Rugby World Cup
With Japan expecting approximately 400,000 overseas visitors for the 2019 Rugby World Cup set to begin in September, hot-spring resorts across the country are faced with the ever-present issue of how to handle customers who have tattoos.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2019
After backlash, Kim Kardashian West to drop Kimono name from underwear line
Less than a week after announcing an upcoming underwear line called Kimono Solutionwear, U.S. reality TV star Kim Kardashian West has dropped the brand name following a backlash from people in Japan, including the mayor of Kyoto.

Longform

Things may look perfect to the outside world, but today's mom is fine with some imperfection at home.
How 'Reiwa moms' are reshaping motherhood in Japan