Posts by: Rebecca
With a collection title that reads like bad SEO tagging and more pastel colours, frills and lace than you can shake a stick at, it can only mean one thing: Liz Lisa’s 2012 spring collection is here!
Eagle-eyed Tokyo based readers will have probably noticed select pieces popping up in stores already, but today I’m happy to be able to showcase the full collection in both catalogue and look-book form. (If anyone can shed light on what on earth ‘pasterine’ is when it’s at home, please do tell!) Although Liz Lisa is probably about as far away from my personal style as a bin bag (maybe [...]
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Scramble Market, a corner boutique in La Foret, is probably one of our favourite places in Tokyo… I know we say that a lot, but the depth and breadth of fashion in Tokyo is quite breath-taking and the result is that we have more than a dozen ‘favourite’ places!
I’m still in love with La Foret; I still get goosebumps when I step in through the huge glass doors and walk around and up and down and amuse myself on the tiny escalators. La Foret was the goal when I was a teenager: a huge fashion department store in Harajuku selling all of the Japanese street [...]
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Due to our current hectic schedule, we actually celebrated Valentine’s Day yesterday by having a lovely wonder around Shimokitazawa followed by dinner at a super-cute cafe just down the road from us in Koenji (it’s my new favourite place – they even have hot cocktails, amazing). Yet again we ended up giving each other similar presents, this time Things With Snakeskin, awesome. I could be cheesy and say it’s just more evidence that we’re a good match? Or maybe we’ve just lived together for a long time now? Either way, it was a much-needed break from running around!
To me, Valentine’s Day is a great celebration of cheesiness and [...]
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Late last year Liz Lisa debuted a new brand, Juge Etta… and we’ve only just got around to mentioning it here, sorry about that! I think Fashion Week takes up rather a lot of our time at Tokyo Telephone, and also we’re exploring a really exciting new wave of Akihabara fashion. However, let’s not forget that there’s more to Japanese fashion than underground brands and new-wave styles – as Samuel wrote about before (over a year ago!!), the mainstream is pretty damn fine: nowhere else can you find such quality and downright lovely fashion even at the very base level. Yes, Japanese fashion undoubtedly has its peaks, [...]
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Whenever I talk about kimono and other forms of traditional Japanese clothing on Tokyo Telephone I always feel the need to reiterate the fact that I’m no expert in this beautiful and often confusing field: I’m a fair-weather kimono fancier, a window-shopper and a dreamer. So let me say it one more time: I’m just dipping my toe into the wonderful world of wafuku, and there plenty of other people out there who know a whole more about it than I do… however if we’re talking about the social significance of Comme des Garcons, that’s another story!
Right, disclaimer out of the way, today I wanted to [...]
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For this spring and summer RNA have decided to look back at everybody’s favourite era, and put a little rock and roll back into Tokyo fashion again! I really love this style, and it seems I’m not the only one: GVGV’s 2012 collection also featured a heft amount of rockabilly-influenced clothing – however, while GVGV featured high-end peplums and tailoring, RNA’s “nutty rockabilly girl” is a little more relaxed. This collection centres around tight trousers, boots, wingtips, flared skirts and bold prints that are sure to set retro hearts fluttering.
I guess that at this point I should confess that I really don’t [...]
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Redefining the term “power couple”… no, not me and Samuel, it’s Yoon and Verbal! When this talented duo aren’t DJing, producing or consulting, they’re living the high life in Tokyo, and uh, making great accessories too.
I’m sure if you’ve even glanced at Tokyo street fashion previously, not to mention Tokyo’s nightlife scene, then some mention of either Yoon & Verbal or Ambush will have cropped up. For those not in the know, as well as being fashion icons in their own right, Verbal is part of Teriyaki Boyz and m-flo, and Yoon is a DJ and also lends a hand with with PR and brand [...]
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It’s been a wee while since I last featured Monomania here on Tokyo Telephone, but I think it’s high time we took another look at this youthful street fashion brand again. I was a little surprised to see that Monomania had arguably the longest line for the cash register during La Foret’s post-New Year sale; the queue stretched right around the floor and was no doubt helped by all items being priced at under Y1000! Nonetheless, it seemed that Monomania’s fans were out in force that day, and since then I’ve been seeing a lot more from Monomania popping up on the streets of Tokyo.
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Continuing our on-going coverage of Tokyo best and most unique vintage shops, here on Tokyo Telephone we’re very proud to introduce Green Dot.
Under the same umbrella as DaiDai and Koenji’s other Green Dot boutique (coming soon!), today’s Green Dot is located on Koenji’s main covered shopping street. It’s a rather unassuming front for what’s actually a very beautiful retail environment and surprisingly large too – the first time we popped in I was genuinely taken back by how big the shop is, especially with the downstairs space too. I really love the thoughtful decoration inside Green Dot: on the ground level the floors [...]
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(It has taken more than a small amount of self-control not to title this something like “Gomme with the Wind“. Please appreciate it.)
Gomme is one of those shops that I always walk past and then really regret and have to backtrack and have a good old mooch around inside, and with concessions in both Harajuku’s La Foret and Shibuya’s Parco that’s quite a lot of backtracking…
I think what I really like about Gomme is how natural the style feels. There’s quite a strong image of this kind of inherent style that will always be part of Japanese fashion: oversize outers, cropped [...]
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Eagle-eyed followers of Tokyo Telephone on twitter and tumblr might have noticed a recent photo I popped online of exciting new magazine .Ruby from the creators of Fruits, Street and Tune. More than a few people have asked what .Ruby is all about, so as soon as it was released I dashed down to our local bookshop (alas, not the secondhand one we live above) and picked up a copy of the very first issue.
According to Aoki Shoichi (he of the world-famous and highly influential Fruits street fashion photography magazine – I don’t need to go into detail, do I?), .Ruby [...]
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Dear Rei Kawakubo, have you been looking inside my head? ‘Cause we’re on the same page with spooky schoolboy style, aren’t we? Nice one. Fond regards, Rebecca.
Of course I’m not for one moment suggesting that Ms. Kawakubo knows the first thing about my existence, let alone my tiny wee brain, but who’s to say no to a moment of whimsy now and again? Anyway, moving on to the real subject at hand: Comme des Garcon’s latest Homme Plus collection, and how much I love it.
Titled ‘Neither Man nor Woman’, I think it would be a supreme example of lazy journalism to just [...]
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