Tokyo Subway manners PSA for the holidays
Just in time for the start of the winter holiday season is this vintage Tokyo subway PSA from 1976 warning Japanese strap hangers on the follies of over-indulging in drinks or “dranks” as the (21 and over) kids say nowadays. The translation supposedly says: “I look like Santa because you’ve had too much to drink. [...]
Read More »Sou Fujimoto’s Tokyo House
Iwan Baan snapped these photos of this apartment complex in Tokyo. It was designed by Sou Fujimoto and it consists of five housing units with each having two or three rooms shaped like a traditional house. In theory it looks cool how the rooms are connected by external stairs, but in practice getting from one [...]
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Abraxas Rex jewlery Step into the amazing world of Abraxas Rex – filled with crystal rings the size of your palm, prehistoric-shark-tooth necklaces, and cuffs with geodes like enormous craggy graphite-colored apples! Betsey Johnson turns 68 – and she’s still turning cartwheels! Check out her fabulous birthday celebration, complete with pink cupcakes and a pink [...]
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Looks from the new Thomsen collection No matter how busy you were this week, we are sure you took a moment to check out Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. Find out what Lynn Yaeger had to say about the glamours event. Check out Thomsen; A chic little collection – easy, breezy, calm, and cool. Almost Parisian, nearly [...]
Read More »50 Tokyo taxi tops
Los Angeles Times Magazine has a cool gallery of 50 Tokyo taxi cab tops by photographer Alexander James, which are also on view at Ann 330 Gallery in LA. Alexander explains “I want to capture that light play with the energy and bustle of city life and the stillness of individual with it” Which is [...]
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