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Category: Stores
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Yuka Is 6%DOKIDOKI
Patrick Macias posts a fun gallery of photos featuring Yuka, a 6%DOKIDOKI shop girl. Also check out the latest issue of Japanese gaming bible Weekly Famitsu for a collaborative article with Otaku USA.
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Pleats Please + Tokujin Yoshioka
Tokujin Yoshioka redesigns the Pleats Please Issey Miyake store in Aoyama — see photos of the new interior at Dezeen.
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Muji Tote Bags
Continuing with the special events and items planned for the upcoming major re-launch of the Ikebukuro Seibu branch of Muji — set for September 18 — the latest is that Muji has invited 34 artists and designers to create imagery for a series of tote bags. Each bag will sell for 100 yen.
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New Muji Flagship Store
This is certainly exciting for me, as a resident of Ikebukuro: the main Muji store in Ikebukuro (which I believe was actually the first Muji store) is undergoing some major renovations, and it’s going to be turned into a new flagship store (although it certainly won’t be as massive as the Yurakucho one). They will…
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Zinester Interviewed
TABlog covers the zine scene, and also interviews Keisuke Narita, owner of the Irregular Rhythm Asylum “radical info-shop” in Shinjuku.
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Un/Built Store
From Assistant and Cyril “bovine mutilator” Duval (Item Idem), the Un/Built Store, a store concept entirely made up of shoe boxes — the store naturally disappears as shoes are sold. The project was featured in issue #926 of Domus.
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TokyoMade Market
TokyoMade is having a market at Mememachinegallery in Shibuya starting today, and running until July 12 (12:00-21:00 daily), with lots of the store’s stock on sale for 30-60% off. Japanese artist TiFdyL will do a live painting performance at the space on Friday (July 10). More details here.
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Beijing Superguide
The Superfuture Superguide series of downloadable PDF shopping guides is joined by a new city: enter the Beijing Superguide. Can’t wait to use it on my next trip there. Of course, make sure to grab a copy of the Tokyo Superguide when in town, which I update monthly.
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Uniqlo Shinjuku
I haven’t had a chance to check it out for myself yet, but Designboom has posted a few photos from the newly opened Uniqlo megastore in Shinjuku — it was designed by Nicolas Gwenael’s Curiosity.