With designers like Rei Kawakubo for Comme Des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto for Y3 as some of Japan’s most recognized fashion names, it is no wonder Tokyo street fashion has evolved into a source of inspiration for designers worldwide. With their avante garde designs these designers have been paving the way for Japan’s fashion conscious since the 70s. Today, Japanese men and women alike make fashion their own. Weather it is a $1,950.00 Homme Plus suit from the Comme Des Garcons collection or a vintage pair of Levi’s, the ladies and lads of Harajuku, Shinjuku, and Shibuya (Tokyo’s fashion districts) know how to “wear it well.”
Having only 3 short days to take it all in, my cameras (plural!) never left my hands. From the moment we left the Shibuya Gran Bell Hotel for our morning piping hot can of coffee out of the vending machine (amazing, kicks Starbucks’ butt any day!) till karaoke hour was over, my cameras clicked and clicked away as I amazed over how so many people can look so good and all so uniquely fashionable. If there was ever a place where you could walk down the street in a tutu, striped tights and a leather bomber jacket and fit right in, Japan is it.
-Daeja Fallas
