J-Fashion and Beauty | DEJAPAN

FUNKY FRUIT: young Japanese fashion in a blender

DEJAPAN Staff / January 22, 2018

Are you ready to get funky? Fans of J-fashion brands like Listen Flavor, Candy Stripper, 390 Mart and Spinns are […]

In early June 2017, kawaii zakka chain Swimmer shocked everyone by announcing they’d be closing in January 2018. It wasn’t

DEJAPAN Staff / December 28, 2017

Every day, we learn new names for things in Japanese. Some of them are… well, we don’t think anyone asked

DEJAPAN Staff / December 21, 2017

The people of Osaka have a brand new bag. Trend-setting backpack and tote bag brand Anello recently opened their global flagship

DEJAPAN Staff / December 14, 2017

Fashions in Japan – especially in Harajuku and Shibuya – are often ahead of the curve. Think like… mori girls,

DEJAPAN Staff / November 20, 2017

We’ve been reading up on the fashion resale market. Why were we doing that, and not watching anime, or collecting

DEJAPAN Staff / November 6, 2017

We’ve all lived in Japan for a while, but weird things written on T-shirts still make us do a double-take.

DEJAPAN Staff / October 12, 2017

Dip a toe into the Asian beauty community, and you’re gonna hear ‘Hada Labo’ come up early on. It’s a

DEJAPAN Staff / September 11, 2017

Watch enough Japanese variety TV shows, and/or the commercials in between, and you’ll know about Rola. It’s safe to say

DEJAPAN Staff / September 7, 2017

The Daikanyama area of Tokyo is home to a rare Maison de Reefur shop in Japan. This exclusive boutique keeps

Japanese fashion labels – from a bunch of sub-genres – give their clothes and their collections some unusual names. A

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