Sassy French pin-up girl, Olympia le Tan clicked her heels to Tokyo not long ago.

This time around she brought not only her iconic hard cover book clutches, but racks of summer clothes, as well as her Japan exclusive line Ex-Libris.

Her saccharine sweet collection is cherished  in Japan’s republic of kawaii by a wide age range. They showed up in full force for her bash at IDOL, loosing their Moby Dick’s over the 2014 S/S collection that features navy-inspired striped summer dress with sailor collars, cotton candy pink coats with marine button and relaxed sweat shirts adorned with embroideries of fish motifs.

http://www.olympialetan.com

LOGO MANIA BOOM IS BACK! What fashion world has gone around comes around, the highly recognized MCM monogram brings the modern creation from Munchen(which the brand name stands after).

Established in 1976 Munchen Germany, the brand’s creation reflected the globalism of the late 70s, and the logo printed luggages were the must-haves for het-setters with a powerful will-mind of liberation, cultural renaissance and modernism.

After two decades of these global-nomad movement, recently the iconic leather gear has been the favorite of pop stars especially among Korean music scene, and finally and officially comes back opening its flagship store in Ginza in April.

The latest “Flower boys in paradise” collection features a series of monogram nags twisted with bright and bold floral motif as well as modern minimalistic(Oo-la-la, we like it!) ready-to-wears.

Check out the campaign film starring fabulous Andrej Pejic, and get ready to make a with-list for the upcoming spring vacation.

http://www.mcmworldwide.com

After traveling around New York, London, Milan and Paris, the fashion wind is blowing into the east-TOKYO FASHION WEEK BABY!

Tokyo collections is really its own thing and hit or miss, there are always a few brands that strike a balance on the edge where high fashion meets edgy street style, and this season we are fortunate to welcome red hot rookie 99%is-.

Flash back to last season when we discovered his bold black and white patterns and cute models with silver heads courtesy of genius hair dresser Katsuya Kamo (who takes it up another level this season). The brand’s Korean born Tokyo based designer Bajowoo just graduated with a masters in fashion design and this collection showed he surely is still engaged with the hardcore punk spirit, but with a new obsession-sophistication.

The towering ‘A’ for anarchy sculpture shadowed the runway models strutting in a sea of biker jackets and black studs. Sleek leather, shimmering zippers embossed with the % motif, lurex knits and silk suits with original textiles were added to the stud-it-all looks. The second covetable collaboration with Mackintosh featured more original details like a leather gun-flap, rubber material, and bondage hardware.

“The brand’s fan surely expected for studs looks as they are pretty eye-catching, but I wanted to show a different vision with new textures”  Bajowoo told us- a showstopper with cool spiky hair and perfect punk black eye make-up. Maybe he wins for best audience too!

http://99percentis.com

The l’enfant terrible of contemporary art scene, Ellie from Chim↑Pom released her first photo book entitled Ellie Is Sick All The Time.

The 800 page tome photo book includes pictures shot by legendary lensman Kishin Shinoyama (high profile!-no surprise she’s been friends with Makoto Aida since high school) and Leslie Kee at her scandalous “Love is over” concept wedding party in January. See pictures of cut-off diamond ring fingers (ew!) and more at Hiromi Yoshii Gallery in Roppongi until March 15th.

We don’t exactly remember when we met her in Shinjuku’s gay district Ni-chome. Or why we ended up running and dancing on taxi roofs (do not try this at home).  Ellie’s still running full speed- multi-tasking as an artist, Tokyo fashion scene “it” girl, and now a mad housewife!

http://chimpom.jp

It’s been the longest week EVER since one of our most-fave shop in Tokyo GR8 closed for a make-over, and finally it’s back open to surprise us with even greater store space dominated by the best fashion names all around the world.