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.
Art Nov 10, 2015
Seduced by the Undercover labyrinth
by Mio Yamada
It's undeniable that when designer Jun Takahashi founded Undercover — which celebrates its 25th anniversary with its first retrospective at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery — he was strongly influenced by the pioneers of deconstruction fashion Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto. His first few ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION Sep 12, 2015
Harajuku's underside style surfaces, uu delights kids and Snoopy's Belle is in town
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
Harajuku's underside is surfacing The backstreets of Harajuku, have been affectionately termed the shopping area's ura, or underside, and has long-been the stomping ground of menswear aficionados, spawning niche shops with secret entrances, often offering limited editions worth queuing hours for. However, all this took a ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION May 9, 2015
Catch the last day of Harajuku Kawaii!!; Undercover is going mad; Ultraman for the everyman
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
Catch the last day of Harajuku Kawaii!! Today's the last day of the annual Harajuku Kawaii!! festival, which, now in its sixth iteration, has long outgrown its original venues and spread across event spaces, shops and side-streets to take over the whole Harajuku area of ...
Style & Design | ON: FASHION Jul 11, 2014
Summer's here — yukata, sales and back-to-school satchels
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
Mintdesigns' refreshing yukata Mintdesigns is a staple brand of the Japanese fashion scene, with its hot-ticket Tokyo Fashion Week shows featuring acclaimed artisan textiles patterned with whimsical, pop motifs. It's no wonder, then, that it's decided to produce its first yukata (traditional summer clothing) this ...
Lifestyle | ON: FASHION Oct 7, 2013
Madstore, Christian Dada, Alexander Wang make Tokyo debuts, while Parco pushes the envelope
by Misha Janette and Samuel Thomas
Alexander Wang lands in Aoyama Alexander Wang has catapulted from up-and-coming New York favorite to global fashion superstar faster than you can say his name. Last week, the opening of a three-story boutique in Tokyo's posh Aoyama neighborhood solidified his high spot on Japan's "it" ...