Tag: Harajuku

Following up on the news reported here last week about Sounds Good Shibuya closing down, we did a recon mission to check on the other Sounds Good locations around the central Tokyo area. First the bad news. We confirmed what

On April 26, 2009, Edwin Jeans Japan will open their new Edwin Denim Galaxy shop, art, and event space in Harajuku. The location of the new shop is on Meiji Dori almost directly across the street from their existing store

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,

On April 10, 2009, Paul Smith Japan will launch a line of super limited edition print shoulder bags. The collection is called "Project 10: BAG", and has been in the works for months. There are 138 different bag designs, which

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

Walking by LaForet Harajuku today, I noticed that they have a brand new window display out front for the upcoming X-Girl Japan x Eastpak 2009 collaboration bag collection. The bag collaboration between the two brands is to celebrate the "Happy

A few weeks ago, we mentioned that the American fashion brand Forever 21 has launched a new line of Shibuya-inspired clothing. Now we find out that Forever 21 is opening it's first shop in Japan in April in Harajuku. The

In the latest move by non-Japanese companies to capitalize on the coolness of Tokyo fashion, the popular American clothing brand Forever 21 has launched a line of clothing called Shibuya Mon Amour. On their website, it says that it's a

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