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Category: Fashion

  • The Death of a Busy Workshop

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    You know that new massive Bape Harajuku Store that opened up last month in the back of Omotesando Hills? It’s only the other day, while walking around Harajuku, that I realized that it marked the closing of the Bape Busy Workshop, the first Bape store. The brand’s Pharrell-colab Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream shops…

  • Uniqlo's Tadashi Yanai Interviewed

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    CNN’s TALK ASIA program recently featured an interview with the founder of Uniqlo, Tadashi Yanai, and the video is now online. Via Imprint Talk.

  • Buffalo Bobs and Big Brothers

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    What are men mostly buying at the newly opened Hankyu Men’s building in Osaka? After Louis Vuitton — the building hosts the first men’s only LV shop — it was Buffalo Bobs. Don’t know the brand, and the o-nii-kei (“big brother style”) fashions it supports? Find out more in this Clast post by Marxy. Update: More…

  • From Koi to Kutsu

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    Yoske Nishiumi’s (of Berlin-based Koiklub) latest work based on Onitsuka Tigers sees a koi morph into a sneaker. Via Designboom.

  • Mizutani Cable Knit Corporation

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    Time to let the Mizutani Cable Knit Corporation provide rainbow-colored protection for the cables in your home. Any length will do. Order here.

  • Cafe Pause T Gallery: Burn Suburbia

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    We have some new t-shirts for sale at the Cafe Pause T Gallery, five designs from Burn Suburbia. Each design is inspired by (and created in) a particular city. From left: Tokyo (XS and S), Toronto (S and M), London (S and M), Phoenix (S), and Brooklyn (S and M). Unlike previous collections, you can…

  • Table Tennis Fashion

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    Andre Agassi did it in tennis, so why not ping-pong. Naomi Yotsumoto is a pro table tennis player getting a lot of attention for the outfits she wears. I guess she’s pretty good too! More here from Imprint Talk.

  • Graniph Design Award.2

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    Back for a second year, Graniph is about to start accepting entries for their now annual “Graniph Design Award.” Last year’s edition saw them receive over 25 000 works from 46 countries, covering all forms of 2D art (illustrations, graphic design, typography, photography). The prizes this year will see $9000 go to the gold winner,…

  • Tokyo Useless

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    The W+K Tokyo Lab blog covers a contribution they made for the UtterRubbish design conference, that takes the form of tyvek jackets and tyvek/canvas tote bags.

  • Onitsuka Tiger + Tokidoki

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    JoshSpear.com has news that next year will see a bunch of new collaborations between sneaker brand Onitsuka Tiger and Tokidoki (aka Italian artist Simone Legno).