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The best looks from Tokyo Fashion Week SS24

Photographer Tanase captured models, stylists and buyers braving the late summer heat to attend Japan's fashion showcase.
i-D Staff
9.12.23
Photography

Photographing sex, subculture & self in Tokyo

Sly Morikawa’s new zine ‘24/7 Paradise’ features friends, acquaintances and fast cars, in the city that moves fast and doesn’t sleep.
Emma Russell
1.23.23
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How Harajuku became the blueprint for Instagram style

In episode six of the i-Dentity podcast, we explore how a 90s movement from a small neighbourhood in Tokyo changed street fashion forever.
i-D Staff
1.17.23
Photography

Photographing 25 years of everyday life in and around Tokyo

With ‘Small Myths’, Mikiko Hara offers another vision for street photography.
Alessandro Merola
12.19.22
Culture

Bala is the collective creating a new Tokyo culture, where anything goes

Five Y2K-inspired artists – musicians, a creative director and a 3D designer – are on a mission to change Japanese stereotypes.
Honoka Yamasaki
11.11.22
straight ups

Takashi Homma photographs Tokyo's resilient young queer community

The legendary photographer captures 9 young LGBTQ locals as they discuss the evolution of the city's scene, and what still needs to change.
Kazumi Asamura Hayashi
7.25.22
Photography

These photos find humanity in the dark underbelly of 70s Tokyo

Street photographer Seiji Kurata became famous for his after-hours portraits of Japanese gangsters, cabaret dancers and nightclub hostesses.
Emma Russell
2.3.22
Photography

The quiet joy of Kana Motojima's photography

The Japanese-American artist grew up in Hawaii with a love of disposable cameras. These days she makes work that offers respite from the daily doom and gloom.
Ryan White
8.31.21
Fashion

How to access every issue of Japanese men's street style mag TUNE

Following the digitisation of STREET, Shoichi Aoki is bringing his men's style spin-off online too.
Ryan White
1.7.21
Fashion

The young Japanese designers fuelling Tokyo's creative spirit

From Tomo Koizumi to Kozaburo, Tsukasa Kudo shoots the work of the fashion talents embodying the city's irrepressible energy.
i-D Staff
11.30.20
Fashion

Tokyo's FACETASM focussed on fun for SS21

Designer Hiromichi Ochiai took his happy memories and built a bright future for Japanese fashion.
Tatsuya Yamaguchi
11.10.20
Fashion

Backstage at doublet's cursed SS21 show

Masayuki Ino of doublet celebrated his new collection with a zombie-infested Halloween party during Tokyo Fashion Week.
Tatsuya Yamaguchi
11.5.20
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