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Yohji Yamamoto Inc., the fashion house founded by legendary Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, announced today that it has filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo District Court. The brand's aggressive spending - including expansion into European and American markets - are

According to an article on Yahoo Japan (via J-Cast), the Italian luxury fashion brand Versace has quietly withdrawn from the Japanese market. The article, currently available only in Japanese, says that Versace closed all four of their directly-managed Japanese stores

The Atlantic magazine has an article in their March 2009 issue about Japanese fashion. The article is another in the growing list of voices worrying that Japanese consumers are losing their taste for high end foreign fashion brands Here is

There is an interesting article in the New York Times this week about the collapse of luxury fashion prices in New York during the run up to the Christmas holiday. The article is not directly related to Japan, but certainly