Tag: indie fashion

The Winter 2011-2012 Harajuku Kawaii fashion and music event - held recently in Tokyo - featured fashion shows from several famous brands, Japanese magazine models, and even Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. Our first Harajuku Kawaii photo report presented full coverage of

Here's Maro! Maro is an artist, indie fashion designer, Harajuku Fashion Walk participant, the drummer for the Japanese rock band Broken Doll, and a good friend of TokyoFashion.com. We were really happy when we bumped into him randomly in Harajuku.

Here's an indie Japanese fashion designer who we ran into in Harajuku. His name is Hidetaka, and his Saitama-based shop is called Kasai Shouten. Hidetaka is wearing a blazer of his own design with graphics of the male and female

This originally-styled Japanese girl - with an awesome braids-and-bangs hairstyle - is named Ririan. She told us that she works for "Himitsu Kessya" (Secret Society), which appears to be the name of her indie accessories/fashion brand. Ririan is wearing a

Meet Tensei & Harasume, a super-colorfully dressed Japanese guy and girl we ran into in Harajuku. Their punk-gothic fashion, eclectic accessories, and cool hairstyles caught our attention right away! On the right, with awesome blonde hair, is Tensei Sugahara. He's

Here are two Japanese girl,s in colorful vintage-inspired outfits, who we ran into on the street in Harajuku. Both of the girls design handmade accessories they sell through their own independent fashion brand, Incomplete Alchemist. On the left is 21-year-old

American rapper, hip hop singer, and all-around media sensation Nicki Minaj appeared on Good Morning American over the weekend. That may not sound like the kind of news you'd expect to read about on a site called "Tokyo Fashion", but

Every year, the students of Tokyo's Musashino Fashion College curate a temporary popup boutique in Harajuku. The popup shop is part of the school's incubation system with a goal of building the skills of young fashion designers. Thus, the shop

Here's a fun Japanese couple, wearing matching white creepers, who we ran into in Harajuku. We previously photographed them this spring in Shibuya, also wearing their white creepers. The wavy-haired 23-year-old guy on the left is a self-described "furita". His

Inspired by Judy Garland's character Dorothy in iconic film "The Wizard of Oz", Dorothy Vacance has grown from a college student's idea into a fashion and art boutique like nothing else. While at Sugino Fukushoku Daigaku (Sugino Fashion College), Ayano