Akiba Noise 3.0 – Post-Idol Culture
The New Year is a reminder, albeit hardly necessary, that fashion is never static, punctuated as it by the shift between S/S to A/W and 2014 to 2015. The subcultures are no different, moving, but...
View ArticleTokyo Vintage: Koenji Shop Guide – 2016 Update
Pack your bags and get your walking shoes on – Tokyo Telephone is back with the updated list of the best vintage shops in Koenji for 2016. With over 70 stores to explore, not including kimono and...
View ArticleMoomintrolls in Tokyo – Where to eat, drink and shop all things Moomin
I love Moomins. There’s a quality to Tove Jansson’s creations that I find incredibly soothing and relaxing – yes, I was slightly terrified of the cartoon series as a child (who wasn’t?!), but I’ve been...
View ArticleSebastian Masuda Presents TIME AFTER TIME CAPSULE
Ever since this site first covered Sebastian Masuda’s mission to spread his take on Japanese kawaii culture worldwide back in 2010 there have been those on the sidelines unsure whether it would find...
View ArticleBalmung AW 2014-15 Collection Interview – Their Gray Samsara
Balmung from Japanese designer Hachi continues on its self-imposed Tokyo incubation, but offers a glimpse with every seasonal “Cocoon” themed exhibition as to how it might eventually emerge. This...
View Articlebodysong AW 2014-15 – Fashion Hacking
I know I may throw around the word a little too liberally, but it is a challenge of the modern fashion system to be truly “underground”, for your name not to be widely known, to be able to operate...
View ArticleWUT Reborn – The Baroque Army Rises for AW 2014-15
Wut Berlin took their AW 2014-15 fashion show to arise reborn as WUT, and beyond the emphatic fitting of an iconic boutique responsible for shocking Tokyo’s own denizens, it is also a name that...
View ArticleIn Tune with Nozomi Ishiguro – Making Sense of the Madness
Nozomi Ishiguro remains one of Japanese fashion’s true enigmas, even though his work, and indeed his shows, exist very much out in the open for all to consume without ceremony, that does not mean his...
View ArticleChim-Pom – Self-Aware Consumerism – Kitakore Building Koenji
Anarchic art collective Chim-Pom are no strangers to the world of fashion, memorably collaborating with none other than Mikio Sakabe back in spring summer 2011 and outfitting Garter’s LaForet limited...
View ArticleYoshikazu Yamagata presents – Ryota Murakami – Fashion DNA at Rooms 29
Have you burned out yet? Note the “yet” on that question – these things are after all inevitabilities in the case of fashion, as there is only so much of the “new” you can take, a finite number of...
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