HEAVEN TANUDIREDJA “Repetition Compulsion”

Bettie Page and Christian Dior Walk into a Dance Hall
By Jee Young Park
03.30.2025

Funayama’s designs, whether intentionally or not, affirm that wanting to be covered or bound does not always exclude one from private freedoms or public declarations of such as one sees fit.

The Duality of Tamme
By Miu Xia
03.28.2025

The division of a classic beige workhorse of a trench coat into a popped-collared cropped jacket and an unbuttoned skirt set the tone at Tamme.

Making Masculinity Cool Again
Koji Kamiya confidently builds his streetwear brand one transportation vehicle at a time

By Ali Khan
03.27.2025

KEISUKEYOSHIDA: The Savior of the Sublime
The Fashion Missionary Rescues Tokyo Fashion from a Path Gone Astray
By Ali Khan
03.25.2025

C P PALACE: C.P. Company and Palace Reunite for a New Chapter in Their Collaborative Story

By Ali Khan
03.24.2025

The ongoing partnership between Italian sportswear specialist C.P. Company and British skate brand Palace continues with a new collection that blends their distinct design languages.

‘Punk Set’: WE11DONE’s Challenge to Chasing Elite Status

By Jee Young Park
03.21.2025

I’ve had in my possession for a few years now, a black pleated midi-skirt with an exposed zipper detail at the yoke and a movable front panel. You can wear it two ways, either held in place by a hidden snap button with the buckle closed or coming undone.

Yueqi Qi’s ‘PERSONA’ Is An Ode To Feral Instincts

By Jee Young Park
03.16.2025

It's always a good idea to spend a few extra days in Japan, a brilliant one if the reason is to see Yueqi Qi. We did just that on the Friday night before Tokyo Fashion Week, making our way to Shinjuku. The venue, Yodobashi church, it turns out, is located off the Okubo and Shin-Ōkubo stops on the JR line, in a multicultural neighborhood filled with immigrants from Korea, China, and South Asia.

Grounds Proposes A New Relationship With Gravity
By Jee Young Park
03.14.2025
Grounds—the futuristic, experimental brand designed by Mikio Sakabe whose sneakers are sure to illicit a “WHAT ARE THOSE?!”—just took another step forward with their first Paris runway show.

Unapologetically Strange, Frilly, and Ordinary: Shueh Jen Fang’s Take on Womanhood

By Jee Young Park
03.11.2025

Shueh Jen Fang continued to refine ideas from her Paris debut, this time presenting her collection at the historic Duperré School on a bright, sunny day. Described on her Rakuten profile as “a fresh step forward for very ordinary girls,” the Jenny Fax world is filled with characters inspired by girlhood, melancholy, and an embrace of the mundane.

ART

Interview with Nana Mandl
& Herbert De Colle
Nana Mandl (b. 1991) and Herbert De Colle (b. 1978) are artists based in Vienna. Nana Mandl combines digital and analog worlds through collages, embroidery and textile manipulation, offering a tactile contrast to fast-paced digital imagery. Herbert De Colle references countercultural movements flattened by pop culture into labor-intensive public installations with renewed vigor. We visited their respective studios during Vienna Art Week and continued the conversation over email.

RETAIL

Select Shop END ON END.™ Is Tokyo’s Newest Haven Featuring Blurhms & Blurhms ROOTSTOCK

FASHION

Super YAYA Campaign Shot By Anders Edström

The Past Is So Punk At Maria Chany’s ‘Elysium’
By Miu Xia
02.26.2025

Rusted watch faces, pieces of a beloved car, a lone Kuromi keychain. Maria Chany gives well-loved possessions the chance to shine once more in her fall/winter 2025 collection, “Elysium.”

Juana Martín’s ‘Identidad’ Celebrates
Flamenco And What
It Means To Be A Gypsy Woman
By Miu Xia
02.18.2025
Inspired by legendary figures Lola Flores and Carmen Amaya, “Identidad” is not just a love letter to Martín’s roots, but is also a symbol of resistance...

By Jee Young Park
02.19.2025

Takanori “Nori” Nagano centered Japan’s unique aesthetic values in his latest collection, which we’ve come to know piecemeal through popularization of catchy terms like wabi-sabi.

Walter Gives Peace A Chance

By Miu Xia
02.11.2025

With all intentions to tap into the unseen, Van Beirendonck teleports to a world entirely his own. New lengths and shapes swell the stage, topped with a uniquely mysterious take on headgear by Stephen Jones: megadome bowling hats...

KIDILL Leads, The West Follows

By Ali Khan
01.29.2025

My first show for the 2025 season felt more like a sneak peek of Tokyo Fashion Week, and that is a good thing!

From the KitKatClub to Tokyo rush hour, and back to Paris in time to sulk.

DAMUR, Berlin

Attachment, Tokyo

BED j.w. FORD, Tokyo

SVEASØN, berlin

Retrograde:

“AI, trade wars, and Elon” Edition

Beyond Clown Core/Xander Zhou Blockchain
By Jee Young Park
02.13.2025

Since I first saw Xander Zhou’s SS25 collection, “Anachronotale,” I’ve looked back at his past works amid news of next-generation fighter jet demonstrations, President Xi’s call for China to become a cultural powerhouse by 2035, and a $1 trillion tech sell-off on Wall Street thanks to DeepSeek. I’ve wondered how certain people would receive him...

HENGDI WANG’s Shanghai Fashion Week Debut Imagines the Future Post-AI
By Miu Xia
02.12.2025

Wang doesn’t hold all the answers, but the growing space the tech industry consumes, including the rapidly unsustainable takeover of artificial intelligence into our lives, is without question.

CONVERSATION

KIKYO’s Infinite Charm

By Miu Xia
01.17.2025

Sandra, accessory designer of the coquettishly whimsical Singaporean brand KIKYO, chats with Le Fool about comfort jewellry, SHUSHU/TONG, old magazines, coloured tights, the iconic Blair Waldorf, and seeing friends and family as the ultimate influencers. “Their lifestyle could be anything: indoor, outdoor, small or large group of friends, party or no party, makeup no makeup, introvert or extrovert. I’d love them to be content with their lives. :)”

PERSPECTIVE

The Death of Streetwear Was Greatly Exaggerated
By Ali Khan
04.26.2024

Move Over Chanel Jacket, The Anrealage Jacket Has Arrived
By Ali Khan
06.30.2024

Streetwear Is Dead; Long Live Streetwear
By Ali Khan
07.16.2021

Editorial accompanying
“Wear The Right Thing” exhibition,
The Gallery at VCUarts Qatar (2021)

Hideaki Shikama: World of Discordance

The cult Japanese brand Children of the Discordance seeks to unify streetwear as high fashion continues to move away from the aesthetic

“It is the designer’s role to create new bridges between global cultures that [in turn] create a new fashion language.”

The Gospel of MADE: A Guide for Autodidacts, Multi-Hyphenate Creatives, and the Self-MADE

Meet Jermaine Campbell a.k.a. MADE, musician and creative director of Kustom Godz: capsule one, the brainchild of basketball legend Kevin Garnett.

“I just bring up being vulnerable and I use myself as a target because I know there are so many people who need to be spoken up for.”

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