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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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Select shops / boutiques in Tokyo are a completely different beast from pretty much anywhere else in the world. With the exception of the handful of heavily curated foreign shops like H.Lorenzo or Primitive London, there are precious few outside Japan who are known for the way the shop styles the collections over that by the original designers. In the same way as famous vintage shops like Grimoire have created a completely new aesthetic (and fashion tribe) without actually making much themselves, there are a good number of Tokyo fashion boutiques whose bold re-interpretations of current seasons create genuinely new fashion distinct from the designer. It [...]
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I unashamedly love Christmas, and the winter holiday season. I often think that all mentions of Christmas should be banned before December 1st so as not to get bored of hearing cheesy songs and seeing twinkly lights before the big day itself. However I don’t think Tokyo got my message: as soon as Halloween was over, Christmas trees started sprouting all over the city, candy canes and reindeer started popping up, and even the speaker system that’s attached to lamp-posts down our street in Koenji has been broadcasting carols and version of Christmas songs for a few weeks now (pretty surreal, I can tell you!).
Samuel [...]
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The best thing about going to a Phenomenon show is the realisation that despite the brightly coloured, avant-garde, showpiece work feeling like it is surely only suitable for the catwalk, it will show up verbatim in retail and from there very frequently on real people during your travels in Tokyo. Last season I was taken with a bright pink jacket with a huge pink cross protruding a good inch and a half from the back of the thing, nice – I thought, but a shame that the buyers won’t go for it. Well not only have I seen loads of them in Candy and The Contemporary Fix, but also at [...]
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