Tag: japan

On Friday of last week, the yen exchange rate hit 88 to one USD. Every day, Japanese (and world) news reports on companies going out of business or laying off workers. Stock markets around the globe are in free fall.

I was in Tokyu Hands this last weekend and I stumbled across a cool Japanese fashion collaboration - Snoopy x Porter x Tokyu Hands. You can't really go anywhere in central Tokyo without randomly finding something interesting. A little research

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

The Not From Paris blog has an interesting article from a few days ago about the ascendance of Tokyo as the next world fashion capitol. The writer doesn't seem to be against the idea that Tokyo is rising, but he/she

In our ongoing series of Japanese fashion magazine furoku (free items given away with magazines), we present an exclusive Kate Moss x Topshop Japan vinyl clutch bag. The free Topshop Japanese bag comes with the Autumn / Winter 2008 Topshop

In Japan, everything has a cute character mascot - even mayonnaise. The shopping complex under Omotesando Station is called "Echika" - and Echika's cute character is a bunny rabbit looking creature with a handbag. Is Echika really a bunny? Is

Attention all fashionable girls, Japanese brand Hysteric Glamour has a message for you this winter - Fuck You! No, not really - maybe the message is Fuck Everyone! Whatever the exact message, the hot cartoon character on Hysteric's winter 2008

While on our way to the opening of the ScoLar shop in Harajuku on Saturday, we stumbled upon the opening of another shop in the same area. The other new shop that opened on Saturday, December 6, 2008, is called

As mentioned in our previous up on Adidas Originals Shinjuku, the next Adidas Originals shop to open in Tokyo will be the Shibuya location. The Adidas Originals Shibuya shop will open on December 23, 2008. Tokyo Fashion happened to be