Tag: Japan

ScoLar from Japan Stays One Step Ahead of Street Trends in Many Ways Including the Introduction of Reversible Fashion Options

Staying ahead of street trends via fast design, manufacturing, and distribution is more important today than ever. ScoLar figured out how to do it.

Retail’s Revolution and the Changing Dynamics of Success through MCommerce, Second-Tier, Fast-Fashion, Mall Changes, and Other Ideas that Work

Tracking global youth culture data on spending patterns and retail preferences, Label Networks takes a look at the changing face of retail and forecasts where things are headed next and why.

Pool Fashion Trade Show Reflects Unexpected Upbeat Mood as Art-Inspired Designers and Boutique Buyers Explore New Options with High-Volume Traffic

Pool continues to show that trade shows can stand apart -even if it’s within the same hall as others -based on the quality and uniqueness of its exhibitors and buyers.

Retail Round-Up: U2’s Pop-up Shop Opens in Urban Outfitters Space15Twenty; Japanese Fruits Magazine Opens Store in Shinjuku; Spain’s Mango Expands; Gap Declines; J. Crew Squeezes

Why some retailers are excelling and others are not. Here’s a look at the latest.

Tagging the Real World (like Digital Retailing) and How to Bring Your Second Life to First

Of course the Japanese and their mobile phone savvy technorati invented this first. Youth culture in Japan is all over it. And so will we, soon.

Underground Trends About to Pop -Secrets By Core Fashionistas Revealed in our Quick Round-up from Trade Show Sightings

One of the best things about fashion trade shows are the gems of upcoming trends you can discover from the people who attend. Here are 5 you should know about.

Japanese Fast-Fashion Retailer Uniqlo Rises Above the Retail Fray, While Beams Launches CultuArt Tapping into the Sales of Japanese Urban Pop Culture

Two Japanese retailers have come up with formulas for success despite economic hardships.

Lifestyle Choices in 2009: Craftivism, Living Virtual, and Interactive Solutions Among Top Youth Culture Lifestyle Choices in Label Networks’ New Year’s Zeitgeist Report

Youth culture lifestyle choices provide forecasts for effective brand strategies across the board -from entertainment and news, to fashion, technology, music, sports, and choices in living.

Mexico X Japan Collaboration: Lost”Myth of Tomorrow” is Found and Returns to New Permanent Home in Shibuya Station

Mexican-commissioned mural of 1945 atomic bombings in Japan is found and goes back to its original source of tragic inspiration. A showstopper, young Japanese stop to click mobile pics by the thousands.

Japanese Salarymen Encouraged to Have More Sex by Big Businesses in National Campaign to Increase Youth Demographic

What is effective in Japan to increase their youth population is sure to follow in other countries with similar problems, including many in Europe.