Style & Design | ON: FASHION May 16, 2021
Kawaii, but make it subversive: Japan’s latest fashion is more than its frills
by Samuel Thomas
The country’s over-20s are embracing cute clothing in a subversive push against adulthood.
Style & Design Oct 27, 2019
When street style eclipses the runway
by Samuel Thomas
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?
Style & Design Oct 14, 2018
Tokyo's fashion week can be for the fans
by Misha Janette
You don't need to be in the business to take part in Amazon Tokyo Fashion Week. Here's our pick of related events anyone can enjoy.
Style & Design Apr 22, 2018
Top stars and collaborations in Japanese fashion
by Misha Janette
This month, fashion in Japan is coming at you with collaborations involving two major artists, one of the musical persuasion and another that might just break the internet. Meanwhile, one of Japan's homegrown fashion stars celebrates an anniversary with one of the best runway ...
Style & Design Oct 28, 2017
Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo: Womenswear sees domestic designers back on home turf
by Misha Janette
The Tokyo fashion scene continues to lead the pack in fresh streetwear trends and international haute prowess.
Style & Design Oct 28, 2017
Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo: Menswear designers take it back to the streets
by Samuel Thomas
The menswear collections on display at Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo in mid-October appear to be pushing irony-drenched streetwear.
Style & Design Oct 13, 2017
Dempagumi.inc's Risa Aizawa on the true power of fashion
by Misha Janette
Fashion designers can be stiff creatures, especially when it comes to divulging their history or feelings in an interview. However, Risa Aizawa is not your run-of-the-mill fashion designer. She is a member of the five-person Akihabara-born idol group Dempagumi.inc, known more for it's hard-core ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION Sep 10, 2016
Anrealage gets real in Tokyo's Omotesando
by Samuel Thomas
Anrealage gets real in Omotesando Tokyo has been spoiled of late with a surprising number of new store openings, not least the first stand-alone shops of cult streetwear label C.E and power-couple Yoon and Verbal's Ambush. But it is Kunihiko Morinaga's Anrealage, a mainstay of ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION Jul 9, 2016
Tokyo fashion faces some backstage changes
by Samuel Thomas
Vintage graduation CEO Tobe Naoaki's boutique Grimoire has been responsible for so many important fashion moments in Tokyo's recent fashion history. Even those who have never wandered into its loving re-imagining of turn-of-the-century European fairy-tale style will have most likely seen one of its acolytes ...
Style & Design Mar 26, 2016
Designer Jotaro Saito seeks to free the kimono from the confines of tradition
by Samuel Thomas
Jotaro Saito has been showcasing his kimono brand at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo since 2006, almost a decade before the eyebrow-raising appearance of X Japan frontman Yoshiki Hayashi's Yoshikimono brand at the event last October. It's true that Matohu, from design partnership Hiroyuki Horihata and ...
Style & Design Mar 26, 2016
Tokyo fashion week: Menswear is caught in the great divide
by Samuel Thomas
Trends for normcore restraint in current Japanese menswear have taken the mainstream hostage, prompting a divisive splinter on the Tokyo fashion week runways. At one end of the spectrum, we find a push toward an exaggeration of restraint exemplified by the likes of design partnership ...
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 ...