STYLE WISE

Style & Design | STYLE WISE Sep 13, 2011

The strength of Tokyo's minimalists, Knit for Japan and rediscovering Beams

MISHA JANETTE and PAUL McINNES 'Irving Penn and Issey Miyake' For 13 years, celebrated fashion photographer Irving Penn took inspiring images of every Issey Miyake collection, without the designer himself ever stepping foot into the studio to guide him. The late Penn was one of America's first ...

Style & Design | STYLE WISE Aug 9, 2011

The evolution of menswear, Matobu, denim, Harajuku style and TGC

by Misha Janette and Paul Mcinnes

Going from red to blue If "Harajuku style" means gaggles of gothic-lolitas and 1970s-style punks to you, then it's time to catch up. It's now the era of ao-moji, literally "blue-letter." Ao-moji is a riff on aka-moji or "red-letter" publications, Japanese fashion magazines such as CanCam ...