• Sorry for the non-live Twittering, but here goes yesterday… #
• Somarta: maybe the best I have seen in terms of quality and craftsmanship of the pieces, really beautiful jackets with elaborate patterns #
• Somarta: models with golden jaws plus pieces of medieval military armor made the women look like the elite of an invading alien civilization #
• Somarta: not all black. also dark maroon! #
• Somarta: amazing purple paisley duffel coat, everything slightly bohemian in a romantic opium dream about “ancient times” kind of way #
• Han Ahn Soon: I will lose hipster cred for this, but I totally love Han Ahn Soon in that she is so in touch with “real” Tokyo girls’ fashion #
• Han Ahn Soon: forget all that post-apocalyptic charred-animal black! light colors for autumn/winter! #
• Han Ahn Soon: a combination of Eastern European folk dresses and sexy runway style ? apparently in homage to It’s a Small World After All #
• Han Ahn Soon: from my notes “glittery tweed folk fur-lined snow jacket with little snow pompoms” #
• Han Ahn Soon: every designer must have one piece in mustard yellow #
• Han Ahn Soon: Bulgarian rose motifs, Mexican festival attire, bohemian as Bohemian #
• Popteen publisher Kadogawa going to be launching a “big sister” title to Popteen on April 17 called PopSister. Gyaru takeover continues. #
• You ever noticed that Japan is expensive? #

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• Arai Sara: soundtrack was refreshingly beat-driven, reverb-y big breaks under 100 bpm, went well with the stark black-and white pieces #
• Arai Sara: slightly pan-Asian in tone (and motif), but the polka dots and big black-white juxtapositions felt like Early Modern aesthetics #
• Arai Sara: not much color outside of a few pieces made from a nice patchwork of kimono fabrics #
• JFW overall: lots of black, lots of satin #
• Hisui: designer sold out and went “all mainstream” this year, in that the pieces were pretty bold, sexy, and wearable; last year was “bones” #
• Hisui: models literally sprinted around the winding Laforet runway to the pulse of late ’90s breakbeats #
• Hisui: I enjoyed the “ostrich” skirt, which looks exactly how I am describing it, there was also a turtleshell jacket, faux-fur on dresses #
• Hisui: low gauge knit shorts! I would love to see these in real life #

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• Today at JFW: everlasting sprout, tiny dinosaur, arai sara, hisui (my GVGV invitation either was misplaced or never came. drat.) #
• everlasting sprout: no canned atmospheric music for these guys, three women did live harmonic dissidence… with their voices! #
• everlasting sprout: set was like post-The Day After antique shop in small town Kansas, lampshades strewn about dead trees and wooden junk #
• everlasting sprout: knitwear perhaps forces you to take on a granny aesthetic, but I did like the knit backpack #
• everlasting sprout: lampshade dress returns from last year, but seems more wearable this time around. also lampshade poncho #
• everlasting sprout: very “natural” color set, beige galore, down jacket came in a 1980s futon cover pattern #
• Bad weather for running around town, but good weather for falling into the poetry of moody autumn-winter collections. #
• I love that Tiny Dinosaur gives you a list of items at the door, so you don’t have to pull out a fashion dictionary for “dealbation gobelin” #
• tinydinosaur: girls from MacDonald Duck Eclair working the door (for those picopico-kei trivia buffs out there) #
• tinydinosaur: men’s pieces pretty bland and badly-fitting #
• tinydinosaur: the “set list” also told you where the music would get loud, marked with thunderbolts #
• tinydinosaur: music was instrumental trashy blues rock #
• tinydinosaur: I liked the alpaca selections, especially the “suspense skirt” ? overalls looked like bunny ears #
• Japanese brands are really into unique textiles with organic-fractal-computer-abstract graphics! #
• http://is.gd/oPuM - Girl on the top middle - those tights are everywhere right now #
• Wait, is “sara arai” her real name? Because otherwise it means “dishwashing.” I guess that’s why she is Arai Sara. #

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• Sorry guys, did not go to the event with the HRP-4C robot “model” but she did not really model any clothes. #
• Kamishima Chinami was more accessible than usual, but still some off-beat items like hooded vests, more mustard yellow, plastic fringe #
• Music for Kamishima Chinami sounded like Klaus Schulze #
• Today, only Aguri Sagimori on the agenda. #
• Aguri Sagimori: pitch black, Grunge combat boots and netted dress, like an extra on an early Nine Inch Nails video #
• Aguri Sagimori: pleated plaid dress was great so was final vertically-symmetrical dress; also lots of biker jackets and matching hot pants #
• Forgot to mention: second look at Aguri S. looked like a third-level orc mage, who lives in a cave, with sinister shoulder point in leather #

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• Japan Fashion Week starts today. Great weather. First up, Motonari Ono at 11 am. #
• JFW seat sponsored by DHL! #
• Motonari Ono = mustard satin, patterned shawl collars on black angular jackets, an army of decadent 18th c. aristocratic fembots in frills #
• Motonari Ono came out at the end of his show in his favorite FUCT hooded sweatshirt, but his hair was done up in the models’ pompadour #
• Matohu show held up waiting for four JETRO guys to arrive. They never did. #
• Yes, the front row at fashion week is a lot of government bureaucrats. Rock’n'roll! #
• Matohu: used to be colorful, peaceful, and pastoral. Now pitch black, like apres guerre Mongolian village, dead animal pelts #

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• N. Hoolywood preshow soundtrack is The Fountainhead. #
• N. Hoolywood is your grandfather at his prime in old pictures plus Kraftwerk and op art. #

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• I love seeing this hip United Arrows clerk in a standard American off-the-rack suit: http://is.gd/nDy1 (from this post http://is.gd/nDyl) #
• Uniqlo x Jil Sander? Coming soon apparently… http://is.gd/nEh8 #

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• http://is.gd/nxBH - Anyone know what brand’s collection on the 23rd is going to host this “robot fashion model”? #

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• Latest Confirmation of Yankii Cultural Takeover: Senken Shimbun front-page story “Gyaru Mothers and their Kids are Becoming a Hot Market!” #
• Stolen from @akihito: Uniqlo meets Corteo circus http://www.uniqlo.com/meets/ #
• Uniqlo x Steven Alan and Opening Ceremony opens wide today. Store list: http://www.uniqlo.com/dip/jp/shop21.html #

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• Brooks Bros. Japan telling Senken that they are seeing an increase in sales. Trad = safe? BTW Black Fleece is too pricey in yen compared to $. #
• Kitson Japan makes 13.6 million yen in first day. #

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