Category: Japan

Denim Round-up: Guerilla24 Selvedge Denim From Hong Kong; True Religion Goes Americana; Bread & Butter’s Denim Religion Show

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Introducing Guerilla24 Guerilla24, a unique new denim brand from Hong Kong featuring selvedge jeans, is taking an interesting marketing route of utilizing street art as the backdrop to the appropriately named Guerilla24. Debuting earlier this month in the downtown street art gallery Crewest, the brand collaborated also with Bullet Magazine for its opening show, attracting […]

MAGIC, S.L.A.T.E., Street, Workroom, Project, Pool, (capsule)—Label Networks’ Review of America’s Largest Fashion Trade Show Scene and Where Trends Are Headed

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 Story and Photos by Kathleen Gasperini and Tom Wallace The flurry of fashion trade shows in Las Vegas from February 12-15, 2012 bring with them a diverse angle of what’s taking shape in fashion from a wide spectrum of genres particularly in the United States. While we mostly concentrate on youth culture influences, including streetwear, […]

Central Tokyo Music Network Map -Plotting Artists and Genres Across the City

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Web Trend Maps are becoming popular and there’s a reason why -not only do they deliver top trending correlations such as website traffic or Twitter users, it puts the results into an artistic map poster.,NULL,Web Trend Maps are becoming popular and there’s a reason why -not only do they deliver top trending correlations such as website traffic or Twitter users it puts the results into an artistic map poster. ,
Central Tokyo Music Network Map–done as the Tokyo Subway system.

An interesting new technology and music combination utilizes the Tokyo Subway map

Fast-Fashion Giant Uniqlo from Japan Launches Massive T-shirt Celeb Campaign to Save Japan

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T-shirts to the rescue, literally, as another brand uses the power of T’s to help Japan relief. Expect to see plenty of these, and DIY versions, this summer.

Japan Relief Efforts Sprouting Up Across Youth Culture Industrie-Here’s a Round-up of What’s Taking Shape

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There many ways that people are springing into action to help relief efforts in Japan. Here’s the start of what will be an on-going round-up.