Department store sales in Japan in 2024 totaled 5.75 trillion yen ($37 billion), surpassing the pre-coronavirus pandemic levels of 2019 amid inbound tourism boom, data by an industry body showed ...

In the 19th century, Japan opened its doors. The "Kimono Dress"—emblematic of a broader clothing revolution—sheds light on Japan's forward-looking strategy as it joined the global community.

Another is what putting these “daily conversations” on clothing means in the context of Japanese society. “Those products were meant to speak for mothers, but the problem here is making kids ...

How, exactly, to describe Goldwin 0? As the accompanying notes put it, Goldwin 0 is a ‘project’, a ‘pursuit’, an ‘experimental platform’ – enigmatic descriptors for the conceptual offshoot of cult ...

“I could not keep my hands from shaking from the strain,” Goto, 42, said, recalling her appearance at Japan Society in May last year. Goto has honed her “kaketsugi” clothes mending skills ...

central Japan receives countless requests from across Japan to repair damaged clothes. Kaketsugi, or invisible mending, is a technique for repairing holes or tears in fabric. The shop is run by a ...

But they grow out of their clothes even quicker ... embed a special structure in fabric that was inspired by the ancient Japanese art of origami. "This is really engineering meets fashion.