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Makin Jan Ma is one designer who I would feel remiss if I neglected of a season, the London based Japanese designer’s character based collections always do well in Candy, Fake Tokyo and his leather jackets remain a wardrobe stable for many a Tokyo gent. I have gone on at great length in the past about how much I admire his approach of designing his collections as a wardrobe for a singular character, which I think is spot-on for a designer of his size who can afford to embrace a niche clientele entirely sold on his vision.
Today I have his men’s designed for a character called “Guts Olo” and his women’s “Dee [...]
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DISSBORN by Fake Tokyo is starting to look more and more promising now that they are on their second season and actually producing a full wardrobe’s worth of items. This time they are in tune with fellow Candy favorite Christian Dada and have coincidentally delved deep into the world of bones for their S/S 2012 collection. Mercifully, DISSBORN seem more interested in bones as a means of containment rather than Dada’s supportive structures, so there is more than enough difference to separate the pair, but on the other hand I can’t help but clock that the two brands would coordinate together pretty effortlessly.
Anyway, aside from [...]
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Hot on the proverbial heels of our look at the Christian Dada exhibition at Fake Tokyo, we thought we would bring you a look at what his next season is actually going to look like when it is on the backs of Shibuya club kids it is fated to be worn by. For those who have only seen his enormously popular catwalk show, the extreme disparity between the catwalk and exhibition was best described by the designer Zoo Morikawa in the Fake Tokyo showroom who simply remarked that the former was art and the latter business. He went on to say that an all female line-up just [...]
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I should hope that by now readers will have noticed our love of both Japanese fashion design talent Christian Dada and the amazing boutique Candy, part of Fake Tokyo in Shibuya. So, I’m sure you can extrapolate from this just how overjoyed we were to get the chance to pop along to Christian Dada’s fashion exhibition at Candy – yes, just like kids in a Candy store! (No, I will never get bored of making that joke…)
Samuel will be bringing you a full rundown of the catwalk show later on, but I thought I’d share some photos from the exhibition that happened [...]
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After last week’s look at the genius of Candy, the other side of Fake Tokyo – Sister have declared their hand through their muse the Japanese socialite Eriko Nakao. The lookbook for this winter is a stylistic leap from the previous photo shoots and fits the inherent edge that is a big part of the Fake Tokyo experience. Eriko Nakao is and always has been an obvious match for Sister and she brings with her a trademarked (and tumblr friendly) Chrome Hearts rock chick meets fashion in an alley vibe that feels unbelievably fresh in a city where CanCam is still the best selling fashion magazine amongst the [...]
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Tokyo underground brand Dressedundressed continue to prove that they are the ones who will define the face of Tokyo street fashion this Autumn / Winter season. The look is beyond cool, styling a steely version of femininity that manages to incorporate strong masculine cuts and fistfuls of sub-culture references, but somehow keeps that aforementioned femininity intact. I suppose what it comes down to is that what you have here is a brand that represents Tokyo at its best, Tokyo being a mess and a right mess at that. You have the new with the old, the base with the cultured and especially when it comes [...]
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Candy’s lookbooks are a true rarity in the fashion world. They are an aggregation of brands that you would never usually place together, styled in a way far-removed from the original vision, but they somehow manage to represent a concise vision of the direction that Candy will take later that season. This is after-all no ordinary select-shop, this is an institution and the best representation of genius at the core of Japanese fashion. Yes, 50 percent of the brands in the lookbook may not actually be Japanese, but it is the influences of Shibuya street style, the progressive styling and more than anything – vision – that makes [...]
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Here at Tokyo Telephone we are sometimes faced with a dilemma as to whether to feature a brand that doesn’t definitively fall under the remit of “Japanese Fashion”, but in a world where a US brand like Lone Ones has its primary market in Japan and Julius exhibits in Paris the boundaries of countries and culture become increasingly irrelevant. On the other hand, despite exactly one third of KTZ’s design team being Japanese their influences are tied to the city of London, but then again they are vastly popular on the streets of Tokyo and I think you would struggle to find an issue of Tune or Fruits that did not feature something from [...]
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Japanese fashion designer Balmung presented his S/S 2012 “Helvetica Standard” at the new Primitive London Gallery to co-incide with London Fashion Week. The Fake Tokyo and Candy favorite was the first to make use of the new Gallery which is in the adjoining railway arch to the one that houses Primitive London itself. The gallery is a pleasantly rough blank canvas for exhibitions, that by virtue of its high vaulted and lack of natural light presents an other-worldly space, but one inherently tied to street edge of East London outside – a perfect match for Balmung whose own work brings imposing, fantastical froms into a street-style wardrobe.
As easily distracted by shiny and colourful things as I am, I sometimes feel that I neglect Sister in favour of Candy (both part of Fake Tokyo) a little too often. Well, not any more! I hereby vow not to be swayed by spikes and studs and fashionably pointy things, and will appreciate the elegance and feminine edginess of Sister just as much. Promise. (Take a look at these amazing new Sister styling images – with gravity defying hair!)
Maybe one reason why I haven’t been giving Sister enough time here on the site is that it’s pretty damn classy – and at heart I [...]
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Well, okay, what can I say about Zaorick? Um, that doesn’t involve talking about tiny brightly coloured plastic toys? I think it may be impossible, and what’s wrong with toys anyway? But this isn’t Toy Story, unless Andy was a mad creative accessories genius…
I’ve noticed there’s been a real upsurge in the number of people celebrating the 1990s in all it’s tacky kiddy glory. Maybe it’s because this generation of internet users are now becoming culturally aware of their own youth, much in the same way that Samuel and I fawned of photos of Adam Ant, Boy George & the Blitz Club [...]
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The last time I wrote about the obscenely talented Kazushi Hara he was a recent graduate of Bunka Fashion College and thoroughly pre-occupied with the re-appropriation of safety-pins to create vaguely classical structural body jewelry, well, in his latest work he has kept the obsession with structure and odd materials but drove the collection right into the future.
Everything (and I mean everything) in the latest collection is made from rubber bands and tape, so keep that in mind as you look through his work. Word is that due to the thickness of rubber and tape (and quality control that you would expect) that everything is [...]
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