Tag: Shibuya

A magnificently dressed Japanese crowd - including numerous Dolly Kei girls - converged on Aoyama earlier this month to celebrate the third anniversary of Grimoire - one of Tokyo’s most beloved vintage clothing boutiques. Everyone here at TokyoFashion.com is a

A few weeks ago, I filed a hard-hitting report for Tokyo Fashion about a new wave of flashy and eye-catching summer yukata robes designed especially for gyaruo: dandified males who habitually stalk female prey in the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo.

Start lining up for popcorn and Cokes… Get a good seat in middle of the row, front and center… The male models of that Shibuya-based "Gyaruo" style bible men's egg magazine are about to make their cinematic debut! On July

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 the Golden Week holiday in Japan; meaning lots of people are traveling here and there, big movies are being released in the theaters, and of course, sales galore are happening both in retail shops and on the web. Knuckle-store

To say that Shibuya's most beautiful and stylish gals came out for last week's Shel'tter Shibuya grand opening would be a bit of an understatement. The invite-only bash to launch Baroque Japan's newest flagship store was an A-list affair. The

Ghost in the Shell is one of the most popular and stylish science fiction franchises ever to emerge from Japan's anime arsenal. Originally conceived as a cyberpunk manga by Masamune Shirow, Ghost became an international hit (and helped to inspired

Last week, Tokyo Fashion reported on how Shibuya's big-haired (and also big-hearted) onii-kei guys were doing their part to help with Japan's earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts. Now GALSTAR, a Shibuya 109-style brand whose clothing is featured regularly in magazines

The male dandies of the Shibuya-based onii-kei ("big brother") fashion scene are known for being many things: narcissistic, preening, and girl-crazy to a fault, to name a few. But the tragic and catastrophic events of the Great Tohoku Earthquake have

As just about everyone on the planet knows by now, a major earthquake - officially known as the "Great Sendai Earthquake of 2011" - struck Japan on Friday, March 11th. The earthquake was quickly followed by a tsunami, which slammed