The View From Tokyo: why Laforet Harajuku is an epicentre for the city’s alternative creative ideas
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The View From Tokyo: why Laforet Harajuku is an epicentre for the city’s alternative creative ideas
Japan will have to rely on its own heritage for new fashion ideas, but thankfully the country has the richest, most diverse contemporary fashion scene in the world. As Japan provides its versions of American traditional style to the globe, we now must wait to see how Japan reacts when other countries start exporting their own versions of Ametora
... See moreIn the '80s and '90s, Japan profoundly influenced many areas, especially fashion. The use of black, the precision, the cuts - it was transformative. In the early 2000s, I finally visited Tokyo and Kyoto. The civic sense, the obscene perfectionism, and the unbound creativity were a cultural shock. The cheeky coexistence of past and present
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