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Paul Mcinnes
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Apr 8, 2010
Return of Yohji, AMBUSH bling, LIMI feu bargains and Tokyo Girls
Coming back in style
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 8, 2009
Menswear bursts the bubble
It comes as no great surprise to see so many international designers turning to Japan for artistic inspiration, because it's well known that the fashion pack often come to the Far East for fresh ideas.
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 8, 2009
Innovation feeds on growing flux in male looks
From their bases on opposite sides of the Pacific, Japanese and American menswear labels have begun to rip up the rule books and reinvent how men think about fashion.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 9, 2009
Tokyo's new space for Chinese photography
In the 1950s American photographer Robert Frank traveled the United States with help from a Guggenheim grant, taking a series of sublime images of people from all walks of life documenting the mediocrity of diners and cocky cowboys to funerals and soulless bus depots.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Jun 11, 2009
Fragrant fashions, high-brow specs, Vogue in 3-D, and Tokyo's own
Getting intimate Tucked in the residential boroughs of Tokyo's Aobadai district in Meguro is a new intimate shop, Lilid 05, where the uplifting scent of fashion wafts you through its unassuming doors. The store opened at the end of April, but the Lilid 05 brand itself is also fairly new, only now in...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
May 14, 2009
Say hello to Belgium's best, aptform, the Land of Tomorrow and Forever 21
Bold Belgium "Avant garde" doesn't even begin to describe some of the amazing creations that have come from the Belgian fashion capital of Antwerp over the years. Intelligent designers from the city successfully fuse fantasy with reality, and the "6+ Antwerp" exhibition at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery...
LIFE / Style & Design / JAPAN FASHION WEEK
Apr 12, 2009
Menswear seeks meaning
The luxury market is taking a beating; world-famous German minimalist fashion designer Jil Sander is working with Uniqlo, H&M are taking over Tokyo high streets and Number (N)ine, a top Japanese menswear label, has gone out of business.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Apr 9, 2009
Kalivas goes 'Goemon,' Marjoli shines bright and Sistere makes Kyoto urban
Fantasy after fashion Tina Kalivas will get to see her creations on the big screen this May, as the Australian fashion designer produced the costumes for the new Japanese film "Goemon." The movie is based on the legend of a Robin Hood-like hero and was directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, who was responsible...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 27, 2009
An insider's view, open to the masses
The performing-arts world in Tokyo seems to flourish in spring, with numerous (and similarly named) events taking place within the city. The Tokyo arts crowd is spoiled for choice with the Theater/Festival (formerly The Tokyo International Arts Festival), The Tokyo Performing Arts Festival and Tokyo...
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA / STYLE WISE
Feb 12, 2009
Fashion inspired by imaginary destinations, the 1950s and naughty Polaroids
Your visa to Fugahum "Fugahum is our imaginary country. Yes, it's also our brand, but I always wanted to create a nation and write its history," says Akiyoshi Mishima, the philosophical half of the fashion unit Fugahum that the designer has formed with partner Asuka Yamamoto. "Isn't that what a fashion...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 6, 2009
A risky gift of myth for the audience's soul
It would be easy to sensationalize the work of Marie Chouinard, as many other critics have, as purely shock tactics. Her early solo work as dancer and performance artist in the late 1970s and early '80s was overshadowed by press coverage of certain risque incidents, including auctioning herself off to...
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA / STYLE WISE
Jan 15, 2009
Goocy and Gozi but no more Green
Genki at Goocy Goocy (pronounced "goosey") is the local answer to the Western "fast-fashion" invasion that has recently swept Japan. It's a pet project by brand director Harumi Fukuda and designer Mary Fukumoto of high-end label Triptych.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLEWISE,ON: FASHION
Dec 9, 2008
Ann Demeulemeester retrospective, FouR T-shirts, Lithium Homme and LaForet Xmas 2008
Fashion blast from the past
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLEWISE,ON: FASHION
Nov 11, 2008
Fashion for the masses
Swedish "fast-fashion" chain H & M made a big splash when it opened in Ginza in September and the line just to get into the store continues to be 30-minutes long. The company has added to its brood with a new youth-oriented store in Harajuku, kicking it off with a collaboration with Japanese label Comme...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 21, 2008
Barrett, Simons and Clemens in Tokyo
Fast flagships On Sept. 17, the new flagship store for designer Neil Barrett opened in Tokyo with the assistance of a heavyweight collaborator — none other than hot U.K. architect Zaha Hadid came on board for her first retail-venue project. Barrett, a 20-year design veteran of tailored cuts (pictured...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 14, 2008
Japan Fashion Week: It's tough for men
Japan Fashion Week (JFW), now in its seventh season, has never put much emphasis on menswear. This year, it appeared merely as an afterthought.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 14, 2008
Japan Fashion Week: New stars are a-rising
Fashion is sometimes like soccer, in that you can't always rely on older players and expensive foreign imports. Until recently, Japan Fashion Week tended to bank on the same names from season to season. However, to keep the progression of new talent and new faces you eventually need to invest in young...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 9, 2008
Hilfiger denim, baseball glove bags and more
Tommy's Red, White and Blue The Tommy Hilfiger brand isn't exactly a stranger to Japan. It has stores up and down the country that run the whole gamut of Hilfiger collections. Famed for preppy nautical clothing, the brand encapsulates, alongside Ralph Lauren, the classic patrician look.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 12, 2008
Jimmy Choo, Mickey Mouse, Fred Perry and more
Fashion mouse Disney has inspired a lot of people, from little girls to Superbowl champions. Even designer Vivienne Tam has now taken inspiration from her childhood and decided to pay tribute to the famous mouse with a capsule collection of playful dresses for this fall/winter season.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 15, 2008
Vivienne Westwood, Ebi-chan in Maquillage and more
The latest Vivienne Westwood exhibition rolls into Tokyo this week. After the acclaimed "Vivienne Westwood: 35 Years in Fashion" held at the Mori Arts Center in 2005, this show includes one of the largest fashion books ever published, and is sure to be an instant hit with Westwood's huge Japanese fan...
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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