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One more event you don't want to miss. It takes place on Sunday December 12 at Studio Cube 326 in Tokyo. It is billed as a Japan neo artist event and has an amazingly long list of participants. Just about anybody who means something in Tokyo underground culture participates, and this includes everything from neo japon to sm to gothic lolita.
There are shows, concerts, performances, exhibitions (photography, illustration, fashion) and even booths for fortune tellers and make-up artists. My good friend Takuya Angel is one of the DJ's.
This looks like it is going to be a lot of fun!
More info (in Japanese)
Map to Studio Cube 326
Japanese designer Takuya Angel is organizing two events that you don't want to miss if your are in Tokyo this month.
The first one takes place on Friday, November 24th at Club Module. It starts at 10:00 p.m. and finishes at 06:00 a.m. Entrance fee is JPY 3,000.
The entertainment consists of several well-known DJ's, including Takuya himself, as well as a floor show and a performance by GoGoDancer. There are also booths for tarot card reading, nail art and make-up. Naturally I will be there to shoot.
You must be 20 or older and will need an ID to prove it.
The second one is a photo shoot of Takuya Angel fans. It takes place between 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 26th in front of the Takuya Angel Shop in Harajuku. If you are the proud owner of Takuya Angel creations, make sure to wear them and have fun with your fellow fans. I will be here as well.
For more info, visit JapaneseStreets.com and click on TRENDS & NEW
Last month I shot at a Takuya Angel party in Tokyo. Takuya Angel is one of the wildest street fashion brands in Japan. It is neo-japanese (also called 'neo-japonese') at its best.
Takuya Angel is a wonderful mix of old and new, East and West, fake and real. Bright colors combined with somber black. Material like Cupra (Cuprammonium Rayon) combined with cotton twill. Designer Takuya Sawada is not inhibited by what is right and what is wrong and what can and cannot be done. He is 100% self taught and as matter of policy leaves all pattern-making to someone else.
Many of Takuya Angel designs are inspired by clothes that Samurai wore in ancient times. Sawada deliberately uses the Japanese terms: ‘hitatare, haori, hakama, kyahan, geta’. It is quite a departure from the modern Japanese habit to give an English moniker to everything that must appear new. Even if there is a good Japanese word for it.
Sawada never makes these ancient clothes exactly as they were. He adapts the shape to the needs of modern life, and uses modern materials whenever possible: cupra, polyester, gabardine, velvet, fake fur. Often he incorporates parts of antique kimono in his clothes. This means that almost every item is different, because it is impossible to find more than one kimono of exactly the same design. His creations are also inspired by anime and manga.
