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THUNDERBOX – AW 2013-14 – CASE SHOTSHOT STAGE2

Samuel — Wed, 15 May 2013 08:49:20 +0000

Otaku influenced fashion doesn’t always lend itself to subtlety all that well, something that ironically goes against the “anything goes, as long as it is private” attitude of the previous, and not particularly fashion conscious generation. Mercifully for those looking for a more credible way to wear their hearts on their sleeves their exists [...]

Rurumu – Last Scene, Platonic Girl – Exhibition in Parco, Shibuya

Samuel — Sun, 12 May 2013 04:22:01 +0000

Reading some of the comments that cropped up on my interview with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (here if you missed it), it occurred to me just how difficult a concept “kawaii” is to communicate abroad. Particularly from a western perspective when you bring your own baggage of associating cuteness with weakness, especially in the [...]

Shunsuke Hatakeyama – AW 2013-14 – A New Chapter – The End of The Empty Set

Samuel — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:21:52 +0000

For all the austerity and severity you might be tempted to associate with dark artisanal fashion, it is always worth remembering that it is not without its lighter notes. Shunsuke Hatakeyama is one designer who has made his niche that of absolute neutrality across a colorless spectrum, neither tailoring too close to the body or draping around [...]

ETW Vonneguet – AW 2013-14 Collection – Random Value

Samuel — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:18:33 +0000

Etw. Vonneguet’s designer Olga is always on the lookout for new outlets for her anarchy and with her latest collection she might just have found her calling as a designer. That is not to say the elements she has employed in the past were absent, we had the familiar beautiful digital prints, UV [...]

MYOB – Exhibition in Garter Gallery – Kitakore, Koenji

Samuel — Sat, 04 May 2013 09:14:47 +0000

Mind Your Own Business or M.Y.O.B is a tattooed middle-finger toting brand from two Osaka natives who cut their teeth in the Brooklyn street fashion scene before bringing that energy back to Japan. Currently they are spending time in Tokyo touring a series of exhibitions that spans the A-Z of the Tokyo underground, [...]

Jotaro Saito – AW 2013-14 – DRESS people – The Modern Kimono

Samuel — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:24:45 +0000

The kimono enjoyed a single show at Tokyo Fashion Week, a reminder that it still is the elephant in the room when considering Japanese fashion, an alternative path in fashion design that never got the chance to be fully explored in a modern context since it got put in the proverbial closet in [...]

T.A.S x Kazumichi Maruoka Exhibition in Rocket Harajuku

Samuel — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:37:23 +0000

Conceptual leather designer Tetsuya Ando of T.A.S and celebrated gothic ceramicist Kazumichi Maruoka teamed up for an exhibition and long awaited collaboration in Rocket Harajuku last week. It is a continuation of a dark Tokyo undercurrent that was brought to the fore by the fashion and sculpture of Julius’ Tatsuro Horikawa in the [...]

Christian Dada – AW 2013-14 – FENGHUANG Featuring Masaya Kushino

Samuel — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:24:17 +0000

Christian Dada has been on an amazing journey since he first came onto our radar as the master of the Tokyo luxury punk boom that came out of select shop Candy’s relocation to Shibuya. He has always walked the line between high fashion and the street level, which arguably was an easier feat [...]

Juvenile Hall Rollcall – AW 2013-14 – Perpetual Dawn

Samuel — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:36:13 +0000

Juvenile Hall Rollcall is feeling positively peaceful for AW 2013-14 with a Tibetian Buddhism themed collection that almost makes you forget about the drugs, bad taste culture and new world order themes he has gone into in the past (don’t worry his Honey’s Dead partner in crime Hiro is feeling as offensive as ever). [...]

bodysong – AW 2013-14 – POSITIVE FEEDBACK

Samuel — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:50:15 +0000

bodysong is rapidly becoming the centrifuge of an entire Japanese fashion movement, in his latest collection uniting artists and designers of various disciplines to flesh out his new Tokyo tribe and world view centered around blurring the lines between reality and technology. The dizzying line-up of collaborators takes in CRC, FORIE, KOU, Nukeme, orqestra liven, POTTO, ROTARI PARKER, [...]