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Month: November 2006

  • Style Wise for November

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    Martin Webb’s latest “Style Wise” column for THE JAPAN TIMES is up, including news on all the latest Tokyo fashion happenings. Pictured above is the new Jingumae Taurus building on Cat Street, housing the flagship stores for Oakley, Burton, and DKNY.

  • More on Uniqlo Soho

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    More on Uniqlo’s expansion in the US, this time from BUSINESS WEEK.

  • Marxy Gets in Line

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    Marxy offers his take on this past weekend’s PS3 queueing madness — see also Brad’s post, and mine on Kotaku.

  • Y-3 + Muji?

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    What, you haven’t heard about the new Y-3 + Muji collaboration? Oh, that’s cause Jesper is behind this new line, so exclusive that it’s limited to one pair of sneaks. See, when Jesper goes to a Muji, he doesn’t use the stamps with their intended tote bags, but tries to find a much better use…

  • Graniph Minus One

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    Remember this Graniph store in Ikebukuro that I mentioned back in May? I was walking through that area today, and was planning on stopping by only to see that it had closed. The shop in the nearby Parco seems to be doing quite well though.

  • Porter Mook

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    Anyone who has seen me in public will probably know that I’m quite a fan of Porter bags from Yoshida Kaban — huh, and accessories — and so I just couldn’t help myself from grabbing the Porter mook pictured above (and can be ordered from Amazon Japan), which is basically just a catalogue of their…

  • The Nudie Party That Was

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    I’ve put up a Flickr photoset of shots from last night’s “Nudie Party” at Cafe Pause, which marked the end of our “Nudie Cafe” event. The place was packed — it was so hard to move inside that people were spilling out on the street, even attracting attention from the police — and for the…

  • The Quest for a PS3

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    How crazy was it on the PS3 launch day to get your hands on a console? As this image suggests, plenty, and you should read Brad’s account of how he got his hands on one.