Tag: fashion

The parent company of popular Japanese teen girls fashion brand Olive des Olive has filed for bankruptcy protection in Kyoto District Court. Moku des Moku, which owns Olive des Olive has over 16 billion yen (around US$150 million) in debt

Earlier this week, UT Harajuku launched a new fashion collaboration with the Wonder Worker Guerrilla Band, the Japanese design collective. The limited edition pieces available at UT as part of this collection/brand are called "Hot Chocolate". Here is the front

All over Harajuku right now, there are posters for Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo, which starts this coming week. The posters are randomly put up on walls and other places where you wouldn't necessarily expect fashion show posters to end

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

Just another quick update with info on, and pictures of, a Japanese fashion magazine. This time, the info is on the new issue of Steady magazine. The February 2009 issue of Steady Magazine has all of the usual features on

As everyone in the universe knows, yesterday was the day that Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. Wow. That's cool, but not really Japanese fashion related - or is it? Actually, it turns

Happy 2009! We are slowly recovering from the New Years holidays here in Tokyo. Sorry for the slow updates for the last week or so. We've got a bunch of news and pictures related to Tokyo Fashion to share with

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,

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

The Barney's New York Shinjuku department store has a crazy window display for the 2008 winter holidays. The display is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the peace sign, and Barneys went all out in full hippie psychedelia mode. Peace signs