Hysteric Glamour store @Harajuku 2007.

Those girls don’t have any hair.

Seems like every winter I give A.P.C. another chance. This store is in Paris near le Marais.

Harajuku is (or was!) full of small independent fashion stores. It’s my second home in Tokyo. I like it there, be it for lunch (Yaffa used to have an eatery 100 meters away), coffee (usually at Eco-farm or at the fabulous Design Festa building) or fashion-hunting of course (too many to mention). Lad musician is one of my weekly stops, with a sympathetic, simple and sober shop. I like its wooden terrace, great rock music inside and knowledgeable staff. If you’re interested in Lad musician’s clothes, check their new collection here.

Uniqlo’s UT Harajuku store when it opened.

It’s been a few years since NBHD Harajuku was revamped using material from different artists. One artist is Charles Krafft from Seattle. Known for his collaborations with the legendary artist group NSK (Laibach etc.), his work displayed at NBHD is called “disasterware”. The pieces are scary, beautiful, disgusting, poetic, revolting, peaceful… so many different emotions comes to mind when staring at his disasterware! It fits the store quite well, as there are very few lights and the interior design is super dark (pentagram made of police security wooden barriers anyone? vintage motorcycles, super retro 2 proto sound sytem…). Visit NBHD and see for yourself! Images on this post are : Storefront of NBHD. To see the disasterware, click on C. Krafft’s link.

I used to be a big fan of A.P.C.’s clothes in the 90′s. This A.P.C.’s Underground store in Harajuku. In front of Headporter and on the same building as HP.Annex. It’s not as big as their Daikanyama’s store, but it’s nice too.