Tag: Japanese Brands

There is a new Japanese fashion accessories shop coming to Cat Street in Ura Harajuku - it's called Dicokick. The new shop opens on April 24, 2009, the same date as the new Lowry's Farm Harajuku building. Dicokick produces high

Loveless Aoyama, one of the coolest fashion boutiques in Tokyo, recently announced the release of some super limited edition Converse All Stars in collaboration with the Japanese brand ZOF. The new Converse x ZOF sneakers are exclusively available at Loveless.

For any Nirvana fans out there, the Japanese fashion brand and select shop chain Freak's Store is currently celebrating the legend of Kurt Cobain with some collaboration t-shirts. The Cobain t-shirts are on display at their Harajuku shop and they

Last month, when Uniqlo's cheaper sister brand G.U. announced that they would begin selling jeans for 990 yen (about US$10) a pair, it got a lot of people's attention in Japan. After all, the economy in Japan is facing many

There is another massive new fashion flagship store opening Harajuku on April 24th. This time around, it's not one of the recent wave of invading foreign brands (see Forever 21, Quicksilver, and H&M), but a 100% Japanese enterprise - Lowry's

With the economy hitting a new bottom day after day, there always seems to be one Japanese fashion company releasing good news - Uniqlo. No matter who badly the luxury brands get pounded, no matter how many select shops close

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

The popular Japanese young woman's clothing brand As Know As has launched a collection of clothing in collaboration with Popeye's favorite girl - Olive Oyl. The collaboration is a celebration of the 20th anniversary of As Know As and the

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

When I picked up a new pair of Onitsuka Tiger sneakers in Shibuya recently, I was happily surprised to find out that I got a free pair of wooden Onitsuka Tiger chopsticks with the purchase. The shop that I found