Tokyo Street Style
Fashion in Harajuku
Tiffany Godoy
Edited by Ivan Vartanian
Keiko Hirayama
Tetsuya Suzuki
Essays by Takeji Hirakawa
Makoto Sekikawa
Mariko Suzuki
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| ‘A visual feast of a book … profiles of the most daring, innovative and influential designers and labels at the core of Japan’s take on style and a pop culture retrospective that features a tasty blend of commentary from luminaries such as Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Agnes B’ | | – Dazed & Confused |
| ‘Style bible … inspirational’ | | – The Daily Telegraph |
The dizzying combination of street-level fashion, outré couture and re-mixed, fast-forward youth culture in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighbourhood has made it an international style capital.
Tokyo Street Style profiles the daring and influential designers and labels at this epicentre of Japanese and global fashion. Offering a pop cultural history of the scene, a snapshot of where it is today, and a glimpse into its future, this dazzling book includes hundreds of images of innovative and astonishing fashions, ads, stores, models and magazines, plus the creators themselves.
Includes:
Milk
Commes des Garçons
Sonya Park
Hysteric Glamour
Baby, the Stars Shine Bright
Hiroshi Fujiwara
A Bathing Ape
Under Cover
… and many more.
Irrashimasse!
Tiffany Godoy is a contributor to Interview and Vogue and former senior editor at the Japanese fashion magazine Composite. She lives in Tokyo.
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500514038 | | ISBN-13 978-0500514030 | | | | 25.0 x 17.6 cm | | PLC (no jacket) | | 240pp | | Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout | | First published 2008 | | | | £18.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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