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Style & Design Dec 2, 2019

Japan's end-of-year fashion ups and downs

by Samuel Thomas

As the year ends, Japan's fashion landscape finds itself facing big changes in street brands, department stores and sales tactics.

Style & Design Nov 26, 2017

Throwback time for fashion leads to innovation

by Samuel Thomas

As regular followers of Japanese fashion can attest, the industry can be seen as somewhat flirtatious, dallying with new debutantes, another sister brand, another collaboration, another short-term "limited shop" or another retail concept that makes the news but doesn't really change the game. It is ...

Style & Design | ON: FASHION Aug 13, 2016

New looks for fall and winter

by Misha Janette

Mintdesigns finds a new, bigger home Until the Parco building in Shibuya closed this month for its three-year renovation plan, Mintdesigns — a mainstay of the Tokyo Fashion Week — had made the mall its home for nine years. Now the brand has taken the ...

Style & Design | ON: FASHION Jun 11, 2016

Shibuya Parco Museum Final Exhibitions I, II, III

by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas

Shibuya Parco gets ready for a rebirth Tokyo's famous Shibuya Parco shopping mall will be closing for a planned three years from Aug. 7, but not before its lauded museum of pop culture puts on a series of three attendance-worthy exhibitions for shoppers to check ...

Food & Drink | DESSERT WATCH Apr 15, 2016

You can now eat Miffy's sweet little face at a cafe in Tokyo

by Patrick St. Michel

A new themed pop-up cafe seems to open every week in Tokyo. Miffy Cafe, on the seventh floor of Shibuya's Parco department store in Tokyo, runs until May 8 and is an especially cute option for those in search of a novelty dining experience ...

Style & Design | ON: FASHION Mar 12, 2016

Mercedes-Benz fashion week vs. homemade couture

by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas

Fashion Week gets peachy Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo is with us for another season, giving us a glimpse of what fall and winter is going to look like, despite the fact that the temperature is only just starting to climb for spring. This season, the ...