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Easily catching our eye near Bunka Fashion College in Shinjuku is 19-year-old Hajime Yasuda. Hajime stepped out in a light grey suit from Uniqlo, which he styled with a white mock-neck top. He styled his suit with a black zippered

It would be hard to imagine a modern celebrity who has done more to promote Japanese fashion around the world than Lady Gaga. With help from her stylist Nicola Formichetti (himself half-Japanese), Gaga's bleeding-edge wardrobe choices have launched one Japanese

It's the second week of December, which means extreme winter cold in some parts of the world. But here in Tokyo, we're still experiencing the end of Autumn. Many trees in Tokyo are covered in golden leaves - even while

The 12th edition of Tokyo Fashion Week - officially called either "Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo" or "Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo" (JFW) - has begun. The main events and runway shows of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo 2012 Spring/Summer edition run

Summer days in Tokyo are notoriously hot and humid. This year, because of electricity issues related to the Tohoku Earthquake, air conditioners across Japan are turned down - if they're on at all. What's the best way to cool off?

It's that time of year again - the time when fashionable young Japanese head for the famous-throughout-Japan biannual LaForet Harajuku Grand Bazar sale. The Summer 2011 LaForet Grand Bazar kicked off on Wednesday July 20th, and will run through Monday

Harajuku Fashion Walk is an event that brings together members of many of Tokyo's fashion subcultures, including Lolita, Fairy-kei, Mori, Dolly, Gothic, and Decora. While the fashion on display at HFW may be diverse, everyone comes out for similar reasons

The Mighty Harajuku Project was born in the days just after the massive 110311 earthquake struck Japan. Sebastian Matsuda from the Japanese fashion brand 6%DOKIDOKI was looking for something positive to channel his energy into - something that would not

FAKE Tokyo is home to two of Japan's most cutting edge fashion boutiques (Candy Shibuya & Sister) and a gallery space (Gallery Fake) which holds underground fashion shows as well as fashion-related art exhibitions. It's hard for us to believe

It's been over a month since the 110311 earthquake struck Japan. Inevitably, things are slowly working their way back toward normal in Tokyo. Tokyo Fashion Week was canceled because of the disaster, but for the Japanese fashion brands who had