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 | ON: FASHION Feb 11, 2017
New, old and classic — Mintdesigns, vintage clothing and Mihara Yasuhiro
by Misha Janette
Minty fresh designs Do you think that fashion is art, or that it's simply a product? Why not both? Tokyo brand Mintdesigns' new exhibition "Graphic and Textile Works" blurs the line between the two with its presentation of inspirational but practical designs that draw from ...
Style & Design Oct 29, 2016
Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo: Womenswear collections shake up the system
by Misha Janette
The six days that constituted Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo from Oct. 17 to 22 featured a wide range of styles, from pop and punk inspirations to commercial and avant-garde creations. It was the first collection to be sponsored by Amazon and, while many wondered ...
Style & Design Oct 29, 2016
Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo: Menswear sells out
by Samuel Thomas
While Tokyo's womenswear seems to be content fighting for a place in the domestic market, the endlessly repeated adage that Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo's menswear is the collection's most viable export product appears to have finally come true, with many of the brands tipped ...
Style & Design Oct 22, 2016
Re-fashioning the business of womenswear
by Samuel Thomas
As the last of the models walk the Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo runway, there are many in the metropolis who won't look at one tweet from the front row or even acknowledge the week's existence. It is a situation unthinkable in Paris or New York ...
Style & Design Oct 26, 2013
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo: Invisible touch
by Misha Janette
Clothing that morphs into a person's body shape at the flick of a wrist sounds like something straight out of a science-fiction film, but such innovations were on display at the wonderful Anrealage show at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo last week. Designer Kunihiko ...