Tag: 2008

In yet another update on the problems with the Japanese economy and how they are impacting the fashion industry, the massive Japanese company Takashimaya has issued a profit warning 2008. They blame the problems on "extremely weak consumer demand in

Today's Tokyo fashion Christmas 2008 update is from the Isetan Men's department store in Shinjuku. Though Isetan Men's holiday window displays aren't as interesting as the main Isetan Department Store X-mas window displays, they are still pretty cool. Here are

Another Tokyo Christmas / holiday update. This time, we'll take a look at the 2008 holiday window displays from the Keio Department Store in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. The Keio Department Store is located on the west side of

The Electro Plankton blog has an item on the Fall/Winter collection from Japanese/NY brand Engineered Garments, along with pictures of some of the pieces in the collection. Engineered Garments is an interesting brand because the designer, Daiki Suzuki, is Japanese,

I was in Tokyu Hands this last weekend and I stumbled across a cool Japanese fashion collaboration - Snoopy x Porter x Tokyu Hands. You can't really go anywhere in central Tokyo without randomly finding something interesting. A little research

Jean Snow's tipped us off to an interesting article over at Cyril Duval's Collete blog about the Louis Vuitton x Comme des Garçons limited time collaboration shop in the Aoyama area of Tokyo. The actual article is scanned from 032c

We are working on a series of updates to show you holiday pictures of each of the major fashion shopping areas of Tokyo for the 2008 Christmas and New Years season. This is the first of those updates and we'll

This update is just one of our quick pictures of a Tokyo fashion shop window - in this case the window of the Milk shop in Harajuku. We do these Tokyo Fashion shop window updates to keep you in the

In Japan, everything has a cute character mascot - even mayonnaise. The shopping complex under Omotesando Station is called "Echika" - and Echika's cute character is a bunny rabbit looking creature with a handbag. Is Echika really a bunny? Is

Harajuku loves cute. You can't walk ten feet down Takeshita without hearing shouts of "kawaii!!!" over and over again. Milkfed is not a Takeshita brand, but they are aiming right at the "kawaii" Japanese girls with their newest fashion collaboration.