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Undercover, Supreme's Latest Collaborator, is Japanese Punk Fashion at Its Best Before the next Supreme x Undercover collection drops, here's a refresher on the who, what, when, and why behind the ...
In the 80s, Japanese fashion aficionados were enamored by the punk, heavy metal, and goth rock sensibilities that had become popular in the US. Thus, Visual Kei was born.
Yoshiki took his love of fashion and married it with Japanese tradition (and his parents’ vocation) with a rock-inspired kimono line, Yoshikimono, in 2011. The collection has had its pieces ...
Also Friday, Tom Murphy ventured to the Brooks Arts Center to bask in the soundscape of Microphones and some wonderfully weird Japanese music. He reviews the show on the Backbeat blog.
Ying Huang, 23, Cris Amador, 21, as Pip Bernadette from Japanese Anime Hellsing, and Deneice Leigh, convention founder, dressed in Lolita fashion for Anime Matsuri fashion Tuesday, March 31, 2015 ...
Japan had its own punk scene akin to New York and London. Though NYC bands held significant sway, Britain held primary dominion over Japanese punk both musically and fashion-wise.
Punk rock seems to transcend the music and the fashion in Japan, and the attitude of fighting for what you believe in becomes a lifestyle that is carried well into adulthood. “I’ve been ...
Berlin-based label Ottolinger is redefining subversive style for the modern era with its raw, deconstructed silhouettes and ...
How does the National Gallery Of Victoria follow last summer’s record-breaking Yayoi Kusama show? With one of fashion’s biggest names.
From Rei Kawakubo to Yohji Yamamoto, the country’s fashion pioneers continue to revolutionize global style. Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers, photographed for T over ...
Kenichi Ugana’s “The Gesuidouz” is a delightful deadpan oddity about a Japanese punk group, whose 26-year-old lead singer Hanako (Natsuko) is convinced she’ll be dead at 27, the same age ...
Ahead of Fashion Week in Tokyo next month, we’re turning our eye to a pair of rising Japanese talents that at first glance, could scarcely be more different; one rooted in a lean utilitarianism ...