I’m a bit late on this one (don’t grill me), Monocle have recently opened up a fresh new store in Toyko, located in the Francfranc department store at 3-11-13 Minami-Aoyama Minato-ku. This making Monocle’s third permanent home, following suit from London and Los Angeles.
They will be stocking a full selection of Monocle’s exclusive collaborations with brands such as Oliver …
Scott Schuman has been snapping away in Tokyo, what’s come from it is some overall interesting style photography. I get really intrigued by different cultures and how each person shows off their sense of purpose, and we all know Tokyo is full of colourful characters anyway. So i was already expecting a treat.
Scott visited the Bunka Fashion College, taking pictures …
Daniel Shibata is a Japanese Visual Designer that works for the design group WOW in Japan. This video called “Shinakansen ver.2″ (From Shinosaka to Tokyo), it was shot with an Olympus PEN(EP-1) with an M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 17mm Lens. It shows his journey in an interesting way, creating spectacular shapes from everyday objects that you see in the city.
The Shinkansen, also …
Kitsuné Maison opened this temporary store on Omotesando in Tokyo, which is stocking shoes, shirts, and other apparel.
“The key idea behind the store is to introduce Kitsuné’s universe, which is not only made of their music, for which they have an enormous following, but also of the more subtle and high class world of Kitsuné fashion collections, graphics and …
As part of his “Spike Spends Saturday With…” series for VBS.TV, Spike takes a look behind the scenes at Opening Ceremony through the owners eyes. Carol and Humberto have been best friends since their Sophomore year at Berkeley, once they graduated both of them decided to start a store with the idea that it would become a hangout for there …
Selectism gave me the idea to post this up, so i have to give credit to them.
This article by The New York Times is based on one of Japan’s biggest problems, not being able to get hold of Japanese clothing outside of the country itself. It can be a real brain puzzler why they don’t expand into foreign markets, …
Japan’s Bedwin produced a film for its Fall 2009 ‘Rain Dog’ collection. This clip here is just a taster, the video was produced in New York by Kunichi Nomura and directed by David Perez Shadi. I would recommend heading over to the Bedwin Site to view the whole thing. They have definitely taken a new angle with the theme. …
Head Porter have released some new products for fall 2009 again, this time its a bunch of accessories for the Lesson Collection. They have taken inspiration from the Japanese School Girl Plaid, and have placed it across wallets and other accessories. You will find these in Head Porter Retailers and soon in their Online Store.
All these Japanese brands keep popping up on the site, probably because they do the best job of making clothing, some exceptions of course, but here we present the Swagger 2009 Autumn/Winter Lookbook. This collection goes by the name of “TOKYO is YOURS”, which may be taken from the Nas track “The World is Yours”. Interestingly in this series of …
So we bring you a new release from Japanese Brand White Mountaineering, this Azurite Hi is a Velcro strapped shoe made of suede that comes in Blue, Green and Natural. On the side of the shoe we see a tree logo, and on the tongue there is also branding. One thing i want to bring forward is the mold on …
