Category: Stores

  • Muji Tokyo Midtown

    The next evolution of Muji? Sure, everyone’s talking about Muji’s upcoming flagship store in New York, but I’m more excited about the just-announced Muji Tokyo Midtown store, set to open March 30, when the Tokyo Midtown complex launches. According to the official site, this store is not going to stock your regular Muji goods, but…

  • Hysteric Glamour Ikebukuro Parco

    This past weekend we did our regular stop at Ikebukuro Parco’s Cafe Add+Ress, and noticed that a new Hysteric Glamour store had opened. The interior design is by Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall), but it’s on the small size, as you’d expect in a shopping center. In other Wonderwall news, two projects have been added to his…

  • This Week at Gridskipper

    IDEE SHOP Bags for Boys in Tokyo You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Muji in New York

    A reader was kind enough to send me these details regarding Muji‘s upcoming flagship store in New York, set to open sometime before the 2007 holiday season. Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) announced that MUJI, the environmentally conscious retailer based in Japan, has signed a lease for its first flagship store in the Americas at…

  • This Week at Gridskipper

    Nike 1LOVE You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Generate

    Generate is a Canada-based product design store that has recently launched a Japanese online store.

  • Recycling Uniqlo

    Uniqlo gets a conscience. Shoppers at the popular Uniqlo clothing chain will soon be able to drop off their used Uniqlo-brand clothes to be shipped to refugee camps or reprocessed for industrial use. Read the entire THE JAPAN TIMES article here.

  • Nagi Noda + Osamu Tezuka Collaboration T-Shirt at Uniqlo

    I stopped by the Uniqlo flagship store in Ginza yesterday — the one designed by KDa — and picked up the t-shirt you see pictured above for my wife (they only have them for women), a collaboration tee between Nagi Noda and Osamu Tezuka. It’s a page from Tezuka’s PRINCESS KNIGHT (RIBBON NO KISHI) manga,…