Jean Snow [.net]

Category: Fashion

  • 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…

  • The Manufacturing of Booms

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    Over at Clast, Marxy examines booms as a marketing strategy, and the end of an era. I’m just sorry I missed out on 1957, the year of the Calypso Style.

  • Slutty Angels

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    Over at META no TAME, Marxy takes a look at fashion magazine KOAKUMA AGEHA, and the post-kogyaru — and hostess lifestyle — world is revolves around.

  • Fashion Brand BOEGE

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    I was working from Cafe Pause yesterday, as I do on most days, with this time Max sitting nearby (we are co-producing a yet-to-be-announced project for White Rabbit Press). After a while I noticed him striking up a conversation with the person sitting next to him. Ends up that she works for To Beno, of…

  • 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.