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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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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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We’ve been a bit collection-focused here at Tokyo Telephone for the past few months (don’t worry – we’ve got big plans underway…), and the huge variety of Japanese fashion that makes it on to the catwalk is surely cause for celebration: from high fashion, experimental and avant garde, to more mainstream fast-fashion friendly looks like today’s subject, Dazzlin.
Of course I’ve written about Dazzlin before, and long-time readers of Tokyo Telephone will be familiar with this Mark-Styler brand (oh, what I wouldn’t give to know a little more about this company!), and I have to say that yet again, Dazzlin have put one over on me. [...]
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If you’re an avid/obsessive fan of Japanese fashion as we are here at Telephone Towers, you may have seen a couple of articles recently about changes in gyaru style – here on The Japan Times website, and a response here on Tokyo Fashion. I think that being able to discuss such articles and form one’s own opinions is one of the great opportunities available to us, and of course my own little brain started firing away on reading both of these fantastic and thought-provoking pieces. I hope you’ll forgive me for writing a response to a response, and needless to say that all thoughts expressed here are based [...]
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Okay, I’m pretty sure Mother Russia never looked like that before. Leave it to One Spo to take the season concept of ‘Russian Marching Band‘ and run with it! You might recognise the above outfit from One Spo’s catwalk show at Tokyo Girls Collection earlier this month, and aside from the delightfully dark Night Porter, this was one of our top Japanese fashion highlights of the day.
Last time I wrote about One Spo it was all naughty nauticals and anchors and polka dots. Well, replace the anchors with shiny gold buttons and keep the polka dots – the cute and retro (yes, [...]
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We’re saying a fond ‘hello again’ to everyone’s favourite Japanese Super Girls JSG here at Tokyo Telephone today – get those sunglasses ready, it’s another bright and bold fashion season!
I have a huge soft spot for JSG, and it’s hard not to when clothes looks this much fun! I think it’s really interesting that JSG, although being defined as a gal brand and having set up shop in gyaru-heaven 109 in Shibuya, with a couple of changes to styling could look equally at home in Harajuku’s La Foret. Occupying a place in Japanese fashion alongside Galaxxxy and Super Lovers, never let [...]
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The concept of room wear is one of those peculiarities of Japan and Japanese fashion that I love – clothes just for loafing around at home in. Awesome. I’m unsurprisingly lame when it comes to my own room wear, as old band t-shirts and fleecy leopard pyjama bottoms are about as fashionable as I get. Of course, Samuel puts care and attention into what he wears at home, but he looks amazing 24/7. (Me? Jealous?! Of course… not. Ahem!) So perhaps Chambre a Coucher from Liz Lisa might be the answer to my non-chic room wear situation – never again will I be too embarrassed to open the [...]
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I really really think that the word to describe the whole of this year’s output of vaguely mainstream Japanese fashion is… retro. Vintage shops have been growing in popularity steadily, there’s been a ‘neo-retro’ boom (clothes that look old but are new), we saw girly retro styles this summer, and it seems that this winter hasn’t managed to freeze out retro either! Emoda‘s latest collection is no exception; taking cues from ’60s and ’70s designs that have also been a huge influence on international designers and fashion creatives, it’s retro… but a bit different.
Emoda’s catwalk show was pretty much the A to Z of next [...]
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The W in W by Murua standing for um, winter? Wow? Wonderful? WhatalotofthingsI’dliketowear? In this case I think W is double the general fabulousness of Murua, hurrah! As much as I love Murua, I’m also quite partial to a bit of W by Murua too – the extra touch of high-fashion theatricality can really elevate an otherwise standard outfit with just one choice piece, and I’m all about lazy fashion these days.
I’m sure you’ll also appreciate the little flourishes of McQueen-esque styling that runs through this catwalk show, it’s made me want to break out some darker lipsticks for this autumn & winter! This collection [...]
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Well, here we are again! It only seems like a few weeks ago that I was writing about Murua‘s summer looks and already it’s time for a shot of winter style! Okay, it’s been more than a few weeks (more like months, wow) and I’ve been chomping at the bit to get my hands on the latest photos after the very teasing catwalk video that’s been our only main point of reference for this collection thus far…
Of course, I’m a huge fan of Murua – the grown-up gal image with high fashion touches sits very nicely in my personal Japan/UK wardrobe – and I’m happy [...]
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Sometimes I think I love window shopping (both on- and off-line) more than actually spending the money of actual clothes and bits & bobs. Case in point is my love of shoes – I can quite happily browse for hours, drifting through pages of sites and around shoe shops, thinking only of colours, heel heights and whether I can actually stand up those really fabulous boots… I am digressing as usual! I know it’s a little trite, but I really do think it’s true that shoes are the most versatile piece of an outfit, and that whatever your weight you can rest assured that your shoes will still [...]
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I think I’ve mentioned many a time how much I love Japanese fashion magazines, and the more obscure the better. So, from the Gothic & Lolita Bible, to brand mooks, to one-offs, to arty-fashion styles, to agejo, it’s all in the collection. When I was trawling through my usual magazine haunts a little while ago, I came across Soul Sister magazine, and it was love at first sight! I had to have it! Clutched in my sweaty hand was the first issue of the first (I’m pretty sure it’s the first?) ora-ora magazine for ladies. Awesome.
Soul Japan is the male magazine counterpart [...]
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