Tag: indie fashion

Independent Japanese brand Buccal Cone exploded onto the Tokyo street fashion scene when the sheer kanji-print pieces from their 2014 Spring/Summer "Neo Extremists" collection appeared repeatedly in street snaps in Japanese fashion magazines. The key pieces from that collection sold

Japanese fashion designer Shohei Kato first caught our eye several years ago while a student at Tokyo's famous Bunka Fashion College. When not studying fashion at school, Kato spent much of his time exploring the streets of nearby Harajuku. Kato

Artist Brandon Reierson (better known by his nom de plume "Lactose Intoler-Art") is a well-known personality in Tokyo's famously fashionable Harajuku and Koenji neighborhoods. For decades, photographers have documented every detail of Tokyo's one-of-a-kind style tribes. What makes Brandon unique

Chun is a friendly pink-haired staffer at New York Joe Exchange, a resale shop in Shimokitazawa. We often see her around the streets of Harajuku. Chun's personal style - both fashion and makeup - is unique, and always catches our

Franky and Cindy are the designers for the popular-in-Harajuku accessory brand Devilish (sometimes written "devil666ish"). We have snapped Harajuku kids wearing Devilish items, so we were happy to run into the brand's designers near Shibuya Station after dark. Cindy -

Kaoru is a Bunka Fashion College student who we see often around the streets of Harajuku. She frequently appears as a model in Kera Magazine. You might also recognize her from our previous street snaps and her appearance in the

This is Nodannu, the 23-year-old creator of the Japanese fashion brand Orleans. He post updates about his brand on Twitter. Nodannu is wearing an Undercover t-shirt and Orleans denim patch pants with a dragon bomber jacket on top. His shoes

In spring of this year, we covered the debut exhibition of indie Japanese fashion coalition MGK. Autumn is quickly approaching in Tokyo, and MGK is back with their second Harajuku fashion exhibition. This time around, founding MGK brands Hibi, Orleans,

Hide is a busy guy who we often see around Harajuku. He works at 55DSL Tokyo, as well as being one of the founder of the indie Harajuku streetwear brand Style Icon Tokyo. Hide is wearing a Style Icon Tokyo

Look who we found in Harajuku - it's indie Japanese fashion designer Kumamiki! Kuma is always fun and she always dresses in her own unique kawaii style. We ran into Kuma during the latest Harajuku Fashion Walk in Tokyo (more