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Wednesday March 10th 2010

‘2- Fashion’ Archives

Tadashi Yanai, the president of UNIQLO as NO.1 man of property

Tadashi Yanai, the president of UNIQLO as NO.1 man of property

Again, an amazing new came out today. Forbes reported today that Tadashi Yanai, President of Uniqlo, is this year's NO.1 man of property in Japan.  He was also last year's NO.1 so this is the second time. UNIQLO is certainly a growing company of Japan, but it's such a simple casual wear company.  But the president of the simple company is [...]

New Adults’ Day in Japan

New Adults’ Day in Japan

Seijin no hi, or New Adults' Day is the day when we celebrate the new adult people in the year.  People who become 20 years old in the year are celebrated for the growth and future happiness in Japan. The day was set on 15th of January some years ago, but nowadays, it's on the 2nd Monday in January each year, and it's a national holiday of [...]

UNIQLO to open in Moscow Russia

UNIQLO to open in Moscow Russia

It's hard to find non-UNIQLO topic on fashion industry.  It's fact that UNIQLO is such a growing company in the world. Today, UNIQLO again annunced their new future plan, and this time they are going to try in Russian market. Decades ago when cold war was still real, who could imagine a Japanese company would make branches in Russia with [...]

Tiffany 5% discount from 20th November

Tiffany 5% discount from 20th November

All the items of Tiffany sold in Japan seems to be  discounted 5% from 20th of November.  Tiffany is especially popular among Japanese teenager to 20's, and they often present Tiffany jewelry to their girlfriend on Xmas Eve.  I don't know when this CUSTOM started among young counples in Japan, but I've always seen a lot of couples in [...]

T Shirt of ODA NOBUNAGA, Tenkafubu

  TWT-JAPAN Nobunaga Oda T shirt - Tenkafubu is designed for the old Japan's Shogun, Oda Nobunaga.  Oda Nobunaga is known to Japanese as a very intelligent and strategic samurai when Japan was in time of battles. This T shirt express the mind of such agressive samurai, who went up to Shogun status in the end. The word written in the [...]

TORAY selected pretty CM girl-CHINAMI SUZUKI

TORAY selected pretty CM girl-CHINAMI SUZUKI

TORAY is a large Japanese textile company. It's dealing with various items and stuff in the market. Although the products are not familiar to guys in Japan, the biggest focus is always the commercial image girl for swimming wears. TORAY's one of the top sales items are swimming wears. The commercial girl is selected annualy and it's publically [...]

NASU GARDEN OUTLET

NASU GARDEN OUTLET

Outlet Mall is originally a USA born shopping place, which deals with directly sent items from factories.  People soon became fans of outlet malls in USA because of the unbelievably cheap price on famous brand items. That fashion wave soon arrived in Japan and many Japanese girls crossed the ocean for shopping at outlet malls. When I was a [...]

Super Cheap Jeans Battle

Super Cheap Jeans Battle

     Japanese economy is still moody and people don't want to spend much on clothes recently. When the bubble economy in late 1980's, people hurried to buy as much brand fashion items as possible.  That was a kind of hurricane time for Japanese economy. Now the time passed. We often hear Japan is in deflation time, so prices of things [...]

UNIQLO made sales record again

UNIQLO made sales record again

 Today, again we got a news of UNIQLO in Japan.  It seems that UNIQLO made a record high in the sales last year. Some years ago, UNIQLO became out of fashion because too many people wear the brand and they easily notice who wear UNIQLO with a single sight. Peeple don't like it because UNILQO is thought to be an economy fashion rather than [...]

UNIQLO, do you know this brand ?

 Do you know a Japanese fashion brand called UNIQLO ? Maybe not. But this is the most popular Japanese casual wear brand. The secret for the popularity is amazingly low price and incredibly high quality. Yes, the cost performance is the best. If you visit big cities like Tokyo or Osaka in Japan, you will see a lot of UNIQLO [...]