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Category: Stores

  • New Swarovski Flagship Store in Ginza

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    Tokujin Yoshioka designs the interior (an outdoor facade, pictured above) of the new Swarovski flagship store in Ginza, set to open at the end of the month. Via Dezeen, where you’ll find more images.

  • The Lobby in Osaka

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    Remember Claska‘s first-floor The Lobby? It’s now turned into a bookstore and cafe located in Osaka. I wonder if the original one will still be part of the new Claska, once it re-opens on March 29.

  • Relocations

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    The latest TABlog entry runs down a few gallery relocations, including news that the main Nadiff bookstore will re-open in Ebisu, sharing a building with the Magical Artroom gallery. Magical Artroom will move to Ebisu, sharing a building with the Nadiff bookshop, which recently left its well-known location in Harajuku. Taro Nasu Gallery will move…

  • Bape Nitendo DS Lite

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    Having to deal with empty stores (in Tokyo at least), I guess Bape has to do what it can to sell some products. Everybody loves the DS, right? Enter the Bape-branded Nintendo DS Lite. Via Kotaku. Update: If the Bape-branded Nintendo DS Lite doesn’t interest you, then how about a DS co-branded with the Honeyee magazine…

  • Hhstyle.com/Limited Closes

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    That didn’t last long! I just found out that the Hhstyle.com/Limited store in Harajuku — famously designed by Tadao Ando, and previously known as Hhstyle.com/Casa — closed on January 31. I was there in late January, but hadn’t noticed any signs announcing the closure.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Bape Store Shibuya

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    The Wonderwall site updates with a gallery of shots of Bape Store Shibuya (13-17 Udagawacho). This month saw the opening of another Bape store designed by Katayama, Bape Store Harajuku (4-21-7 Jingumae).