Tag: brands

The days following New Year's Day are huge shopping days in Japan. One of the biggest reasons for the shopping frenzy are the fukubukuro (Happy Bag, Lucky Bag, Mystery Bag, etc.) that many stores offer to kick off the New

Tokyo Fashion has been reporting on the arrival of Forever 21 in Harajuku for months, and today the mothership finally landed. The media gathered, the line of Japanese fashionistas ran around the block, Don Chang made an appearance, and the

Sad news from the heart of Shibuya. The Sounds Good by United Arrows super hip fashion select shop here closed down at the beginning of this month (April 2009). We first reported on this cool concept store when it opened,

Last week, Jeremy Scott arrived in Tokyo. And he/they/it (it's a person, it's a brand, it's a lifestyle) didn't land silently. There was a big party called "I'm Gorgeous" in Shibuya to celebrate the launch of the Jeremy Scott brand

Sad news from Meiji Dori in Harajuku - the 2Line men's select shop is closing down at the end of this month. I was walking in the area and I noticed that their sign said in big bright letters "Closing

For much of the last 50 years, since the modern fashion industry developed, cities like New York, Paris, London, and Milan have all been centers of new trends, fashions, and brands that have subsequently swept the world. However, since the