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Category: City Life

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Shanghai Tang Ginza Omotesando Hills Opening Day You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here.

  • The Latest at Muji

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    While at a Muji store earlier today, I noticed a new collection of bags they’ve grouped under a line called “World Muji Bag.” I’m especially fond of their new butterfly series, that includes a larger carry-on, a boston, and a smaller shoulder version. Me wants. And regarding the “Muji Labo” brand I mentioned seeing at…

  • Chanel

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    The Chanel store in Ginza.

  • An Afternoon in Ginza

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    As I moblogged earlier today, I was in Shibuya to meet up with PingMag‘s Uleshka to talk about writing for them. I had a chance to visit the IMG SRC and PingMag offices, and I’m pretty happy about getting to work with them (since I’m such a big fan of the site). After that, it…

  • Thoughts on Omotesando Hills

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    Omotesando Hills has garnered its fair share of critisism — it’s no secret that CrissCross’ Mark Devlin doesn’t like it much, as he’s stated in a METROPOLIS essay, and also in this comment thread, where he specifically points out problems — and since I had a chance to visit the place on opening day (and…

  • The Last of the Tees

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    Well, Canadian Style is now officially over. I will be posting a last round-up of the event, probably tomorrow, but for now I just want to announce that as far as the tees go, there are now only 6 left, in the following sizes: 2 red Smalls, 3 white Smalls, and 1 white Medium. So…

  • Tokyo Boy 01

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    Following my day out in Harajuku/Omotesando today for, among other things, the opening of Omotesando Hills (see the pics), I ended up recording what is to be the first episode of my Tokyo Boy podcast. Recorded with the iTalk recorder on my iPod, it sounds like crap with annoying static throughout (like I said in…

  • Omotesando Hills Opening Day

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    I went to Omotesando Hills earlier today for the public opening, and have put together a Flickr photoset (60 pictures) of some shots I took. Viewing the pictures in a slideshow is nice, but be aware that I’ve also written some info for each one (which you don’t see in slideshow mode). I know there…