2023 | Local fashion craze breakdown | TOKYO STREET FASHION NEWS

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Techwear+

While looking out last year, we didn’t find many people looking good in Tech fashion.
This year we are spreading our sights out wider, looking for people who are matching Tech items,, or who have a Tech-like silhouette.
The good thing about Tech items is that they are thin, warm, and strong, so …

2023.12

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Stylish guy with long hair

These days, handsome men with long hair seem to be popular among women in the 20s.
When I asked female students the reason, they said it's because men with long hair tend to be more stylish. To find out if this is really the case, I decided to look for men with long hair in Harajuku and Omotesand…

2023.11

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Attractive coordination of skin

Outfits that reveal skin have been gradually increasing since last year, but they became an unprecedented hit on the streets this summer when combined with Y2K fashion.
In addition to exposing the belly-button (stomach), we saw a wide variety of ways to reveal skin, such as cut-outs that reveal t…

2023.10

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New Shimokita wanderers

The area around Shimokitazawa Station once looked like a ghost town because of redevelopment after the station was relocated underground.
Recently, the crowd has returned considerably, but it seems that the faces are different from before.

This time, in order to examine how the attire of peop…

2023.09

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COOL DENIM STYLE

Low-rise pants are a Y2K fashion trend that’s making a comeback.
While jeans are the most popular type, it’s common to see people wearing regular mid-rise pants low on their waist to make them look like they’re low-rise.
Some people search for low-rise jeans in thrift stores, but the ones from …

2023.08

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Rainy day style

Fashionable rain boots first became popular in Japan around 2007-2010. They became a hit with cute patterns such as flowers and polka dots on clear material.
These rain boots completely changed the impression that it is "embarrassing to wear rubber boots on the way to work/school." Since then, the…

2023.07

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Individual style in Urahara/Okuhara

In order to find out how Japan’s iconoclastic fashion has changed in the three years since the COVID-19 pandemic, I took a walk around the back alleys of Harajuku and its surroundings. As I expected, there were many foreigners from Takeshita-dori to Omotesando and, among them, I felt that Asian for…

2023.05

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Foreigners Gathering in Shibuya

From around the end of last year, we began to see people from overseas on the streets. In Ginza or Harajuku on weekdays, we pass by so many people from overseas that there are probably more than Japanese people.
Of course, there are many tourists who come here on tour, but it seems that more peopl…

2023.04

Local fashion craze breakdown 2023

Techwear+

Stylish guy with long hair

Attractive coordination of skin

New Shimokita wanderers

COOL DENIM STYLE

Rainy day style

Individual style in Urahara/Okuhara

Foreigners Gathering in Shibuya