World, get ready - "sensational lovely" cuteness is coming your way, via the 6%DokiDoki World Tour! This year, Japanese fashion brand 6%DokiDoki celebrates its 15th anniversary. To commemorate fifteen years of kawaii fashion – and to share the brand's unique

Everyone loves Tokyo's fast moving fashion trends, so we do our best to let you know when we spot a hot one. This time, we're going to take a look at a major purse/bag trend that started in the spring

Rainy season seems to be over in Tokyo, the sun is blasting, and the humidity feels like it's at about 150%. That can mean only one thing - summer has arrived. What does the start of summer signify in Harajuku?

The "Blythe 9th Anniversary Charity Exhibition" in Tokyo brought together over 100 cute Blythe Dolls in original eye-catching costumes designed by Japanese celebrities, fashion designers, and manga artists. The annual show - which just ended its 2010 run at Omotesando

Dolly-kei fashion took over Shibuya on Friday night as everyone's favorite Dolly-kei boutique - Grimoire Tokyo - held their Second Anniversary party at Cafe x Lounge MICROCOSMOS. Amazingly dressed and coiffed dollies - girls, and guys - came out in

Sad news from Tokyo for lovers of cute, quirky Japanese fashion: the Harajuku-based fashion brand Banana Fish, famous for its kawaii character-based clothing designs, suddenly and unexpectedly shut its doors last week. The entire operation - including all physical stores

Shibuya, once famous for its dizzying array of subcultures such as backstreet b-boys, super-tanned ganguro and gaudy gyaru and gyaruo, has been going through something of a face lift. Fast fashion giants H&M and Uniqlo, and sportswear brands such as

On Saturday April 17th 2010, Lady Gaga played the first of two sold-out shows at Tokyo's Yokohama Arena. These were the only two Tokyo-area stops on her sold-out-all-over-the-world "Monster Ball" tour. Lady Gaga is popular everywhere on the planet, but

In what seemed like a sequel to its death metal-inspired 09AW show, Black Painting, Lad Musician’s latest collection, designed by Yuichi Kuroda, was a gothic horror romp taking in vampires, ghouls and ghosts. The collection for 10AW, titled "The Un-Dead",

More than 3,000 people crammed into the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo last night, April 1, 2010, to see the return of a living legend. Fashion designer and Japanese icon Yohji Yamamoto held his first menswear runway show in the