Japanese Fashion

Japanese Fashion posts cover designers and street styles from the country that gave the world a generation of avant-garde labels. Articles look at the Tokyo origins of Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake in the early 1980s, the rise of streetwear through Bape, Undercover and Visvim, the Lolita and Decora subcultures of Harajuku, the heritage denim makers of Okayama, and the more recent label generation including Sacai, Kolor and Tao. There are also notes on the salaryman dress code, on the kimono revival and on the way Japanese sizing is cut narrower than Western sizing.