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NYTimes “T Magazine” Japan Issue
NYTimes “T Magazine” published a special issue on Japan with several different covers featuring Japanese icons, designers, and artists including Godzilla, Takashi Murakami, Marie Kondo, and Tadanori Yokoo with Yohji Yamamoto and others inside.
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Tokyo Minimal Street Style in Harajuku
Tokyo-based Puerto Rican model Noma on the street in Harajuku wearing minimal vintage fashion, Kimpande, and the Chinese brand CONP Citizen of No Place.
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Chinese Physics Student in Jean Paul Gaultier in Harajuku, Tokyo
Physics student (with a focus on next-generation battery technology) Stella is from China and currently attending college in London. She was visiting Tokyo when we spotted her on the street in Harajuku. Stella’s cyber-inspired style includes a cyber dots dress by legendary fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier with Gentle Monster glasses, New Rock boots, My Melody rings, Vivienne Westwood armour ring, and silver horns.
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Harajuku 1990s x Vampire Street Style w/ Swear Boots & Bananafish
Ticomeba, also known as ito, is a 20-year-old Japanese vampire, Bunka Fashion College student, 6%DOKIDOKI shop girl, and Harajuku’s tallest Japanese Neo Decora. Ito’s style is Monster High Draculaura inspired with 25+ cm Swear London monster boots from the 1990s, Bananafish, and other vintage 90s FRUiTS Magazine brands.
20-year-old Japanese street style personality, longtime neo decora, and Bunka Fashion College student Ticomeba is the new shop girl at legendary Harajuku boutique 6%DOKDIDOKI.
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20-year-old Japanese Beauty School Student Rikito in Harajuku
Rikito is one of the new Harajuku kids who burst onto the scene this year with his original mix of traditional Japanese items (he regularly wears kimono and geta), vintage fashion, and shironuri makeup. Here he’s wearing all resale fashion with Japanese room shoes and Hello Kitty with a face. Rikito’s favorite fashion designer is Japanese legend Yohji Yamamoto, but we never see him wearing brand clothing. He prefers to mix stuff from kimono shops, resale stores, and his mom’s closet. His fashion inspiration also includes manga & French mime. We shot this street snap in Harajuku, Tokyo, on his 20th birthday.
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Harajuku Street Style Interview: Japanese Classical Violinist Forging A New Path
Haruka is a Japanese classical violinist and popular personality in the Harajuku street style scene. Haruka dedicated her entire life, since a very young age, to the violin. But recently, while attending music college, she started questioning her future plans.
Harajuku’s Iconic Japanese Kawaii Fashion Subculture Decora is Making a Comeback
A new article about decora and a new ten minute video featuring footage of a decora meetup in Harajuku, old FRUiTS Magazine snaps, and interview with FRUiTS Magazine founder Shoichi Aoki and Japanese Neo Decora leader Nico.
Takashi Murakami “Mononoke Kyoto” Exhibition in Kyoto Japan Features 170 Artworks
The big Takashi Murakami art exhibition “Mononoke Kyoto”, featuring 170 of the popular Japanese artist’s works, is open through September 1, 2024 at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto, Japan.
Takashi Murakami “Mononoke Kyoto” Exhibition in Kyoto Japan Features 170 Artworks
The big Takashi Murakami art exhibition “Mononoke Kyoto”, featuring 170 of the popular Japanese artist’s works, is open through September 1, 2024 at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto, Japan.
A great Japanese musician and legendary Harajuku style icon has passed away. There was no band more popular with Harajuku visual kei fans of the 2005-2010 era. The famous Jingubashi bridge was full of REITA/GazettE cosplayers every weekend back then. RIP 🖤🖤🖤🖤
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18 Tokyo Street Styles in Harajuku, Japan
Street styles we shot in Harajuku with Y2K anime gyaru inspired fashion, kimono, a Hello Kitty plushies skirt, extreme hairstyles, a full body tattoo, RinRinDoll, and more.
TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 Autumn/Winter DAY SIX - Anrealage Street StylePhotos by Guest Collaborator TokyoFashion!
Tokyo Fashion Week came to an official end this evening, but there are two fashion shows in Tokyo tomorrow (both of which we're excited about) - so it’s not quite over for us…or you!
All of the street style in this set was shot at the debut menswear collection show of multi-award-winning Japanese fashion brand Anrealage. The brand usually shows in Paris, so the fact that they not only came back to Tokyo but did so for the first ever Anrealage Homme collection was a treat for Japanese fashion fans.
The thousand plus attendees that gathered at the massive Tokyo Telecom Center tonight witnessed another major milestone for a fast-rising fashion label that came up from the streets of Harajuku to be heralded as one of Japan’s top young brands, joining labels like Sacaiand Kolor in representing Japan on the world stage.
Anrealage designer Kunihiko Morinaga attended both the prestigious Waseda University (hello Yohji Yamamoto!) and Tokyo’s Vantan Design Institute of Fashion. He launched Anrealage (A REAL UNREAL AGE) in 2003, debuted at Tokyo Collection in 2005, and debuted at Paris Fashion Week in 2014. Morinaga has either won or been a runner-up for many top fashion prizes, including winning the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix and being a top contender for the LVMH Prize.
In the years before the brand’s meteoric rise to Paris and beyond, you’d often see Anrealage worn by fashion students, artists, and other creatives on the streets of Tokyo as well as in street snap magazines like FRUiTS and TUNE. Many of the brand’s early iconic pieces were colorful handmade patchwork, instantly recognizable and treasured for their quality and one-of-a-kind nature. The debut Anrealage Homme runway show paid tribute to those early works with several patchwork-inspired looks, ensuring everyone in attendance that - no matter how famous his label gets - the designer has no intention of forgetting he started on the streets.
One other reason that we were excited for the Anrealage show is that all of the headpieces in the show were designed by young (early 20s) fast-rising Japanese designer Nori Enomoto.
We first met Nori in Harajuku when she was just a fashionable high school student. In the few years since then, she graduated from high school, graduated from Tokyo’s famous Bunka Fashion College, became a pattern maker for top Japanese labels, launched her own brand, began selling out all of her work as fast as she could make it, and started showing her work at exhibitions during Paris Fashion Week.
The fact that Nori is so young but was entrusted with the key headpieces for a major show by a major Japanese fashion brand says a lot about what her future likely holds. We expect to see her work on the runway more in the future and we recommend that you follow her rise as well if you aren’t already.
Tokyo Fashion Week is over now, but we’ve got a few more shows and a lot of street style still to edit - so you’ll likely see a few more updates from us in the next week! Thanks for following along! Please let us know if you’d like to see more Japanese street style here in the future.
Street Style we photographed at the debut menswear runway show of Japanese fashion brand Anrealage in Tokyo last night.
Anrealage has risen from the streets of Harajuku to become one of the big award winning Paris Fashion Week brands in the last twenty years, but they came back to Tokyo for the debut show of Anrealage Homme.
The Best Japanese Street Style From TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 Autumn/Winter! DAY FIVEPhotos by TokyoFashion!
Day five of Tokyo Fashion Week is finished and we’re back with more Japanese street style! Today’s runway schedule wasn’t the busiest, so we were wondering how the street style would be. It turned out to be pretty good.
The big show for many fashion industry attendees was the Nordic lifestyle brand Marimekko, most famous for their colorful 1960s patterns. A show attendee told us that Marimekko has been making an effort to attract young cool consumers, which may be why they were one of the featured runway shows of the entire Tokyo Fashion Week.
The event we were most looking forward to today wasn’t even on the official schedule - a private show and exhibition by underground Japanese fashion brand Balmung. Balmung has long been popular with Harajuku kids, underground Japanese idols, and lovers of high concept artistic fashion. Recently, the brand has had a huge influence on shaping Japan’s Jirai Kei/Toyoko fashion boom (as many of the popular brands in that space have copied Balmung’s most iconic designs, simplifying them and making them cheap for mass audiences).
In addition to those two shows, there were Tokyo Fashion Week events in Harajuku/Omotesando and in Shibuya today. Enjoy the photos! We’ll be back tomorrow with more street snaps from the final day of Fashion Week!
The Best Japanese Street Style From TOKYO FASHION WEEK 2024 Autumn/Winter! DAY FOURPhotos by TokyoFashion!
Tokyo Fashion Week day four was just as over the top as we expected. There were three different Japanese fashion shows at the famous Yoyogi National Stadium in Harajuku. Unlike last season’s BAPE show, these were all at the large “Yoyogi #1” building where huge artists like Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru hold concerts.
The first two shows (AkikoAoki and Murral) used only parts of the stadium. Then came the main event - a highly anticipated open-to-the-public show by renowned Japanese designer Mikio Sakabe. We don’t yet have the numbers for how many people attended Mikio's show, but it was one of the most highly attended Tokyo Fashion Week shows we’ve seen in at least a decade.
The Mikio fashion show was followed by an after party with drinks and dancing inside of Yoyogi National Stadium, bringing about seven hours of fashion at Yoyogi to a fun close. We shot so many street snaps at the Mikio Sakabe show that we’re going to publish them in their own set, since we need more time to go through all of the thousands of photos we took today.
In the meantime, these are the street snaps from fashion shows earlier in the day, including AkikoAoki and Murral. Some of the people in these snaps likely ended up at Mikio Sakabe (check for Grounds bubble shoes) as well, but we’ll be back soon with lots of Mikio-only street style!
More street style we shot at Tokyo Fashion Week. All of these snaps were outside of Japanese fashion shows at Yoyogi National Stadium in Harajuku in March of 2024!!
