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Sao Paulo is well on its way to churning out Tokyo-esque levels of brightly colored indie trinketry. This latest—a pencil-holder, in case you hadn’t guessed—is from Buia, a Japanese-Brazilian designer with a knack for transferring cartoonish designs onto ceramics.
Photographed by our fearless lensman, Patrick McMullan.
We always just kind of took it for granted that king-of-camp John Waters only ever wears vintage threads. That’s what the writer/director’s skinny suits and ties always looked like to us, and it seemed to match his retro persona perfectly. The other night at the opening of the new musical version of his 1990 film
It was the modernized boating blazer that tipped us off, of course»
When manga artist Takashi Murakami was first tapped to collaborate with Louis Vuitton, he opened our eyes to the burgeoning cultural renaissance taking place in Japan.
Now the Japanese avant-garde is getting the full treatment in Ian Luna’s Tokyolife: Art & Design, which showcases the work of over 80 creative types pushing the boundaries in those fields as well as architecture, film, photography and of course fashion. While some names like Nigo of A Bathing Ape are already widely familiar and influential, others have yet to make their mark on the West.
Here’s your primer.
All That Jazz: The men and women of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. [A Continuous Lean]
Mama’s Pearl: Could microblog dress-up be the future of the fashion industry? We certainly hope not. [PSFK]
Monkey Business: The headline says it all: Monkey Eludes Net-Wielding Police at Tokyo Station. Well, almost all. [Reuters]
Hidden Treasures: Yet another accoutrement for surreptitious drinking. [Uncrate]
