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Craftspeople in Okayama Prefecture are carrying on a centuries-old tradition of indigo dyeing that contrasts with ...

The Japanese market has dominated the trade in American vintage clothing for decades. Now economic and cultural changes are ...

and it's certainly no different when it comes to Japanese fashion. Ask any fashion insider and they will likely wax lyrical about Rei Kawakubo, founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market and ...

so he sourced all of his fabrics from Japan and rented traditional Japanese clothing from the Sengoku era so that he and his team could study their construction and reproduce them using similar ...

Not a “Lolita” in the Nabokovian sense, the woman was an adult dressed in Lolita fashion, a style of dress popularized in ...

A customer gets advice from a professional fashion consultant while visiting ... in one location Manga and anime are a big part of Japanese culture. But they require a huge amount of work to ...

Gyaru fashion and style, a vibrant Japanese subculture that first emerged in the 90s, is making a well-deserved fashionable comeback. Once synonymous with the dramatic, rebellious Ganguro look of ...

Forty years after its founding, Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has more than 2,500 stores worldwide. Sales at its parent company, Fast Retailing Co, recently topped 3 trillion yen annually for the ...

Takeyoshi Kono twining string around the bamboo ribs of a fan at the Marugame Uchiwa Museum in Marugame, Japan.Credit...Andrew Faulk for The New York Times Supported by By Vivian Morelli ...