In the 90′s Laforet was the cutting edge of eccentric fashion in Harajuku, with tons of interesting designers such as Batsu, Jean-Paul Gaultier or Atelier Boz. Now look at the entrance and you’ll understand how conservative and formatted Harajuku has become.
There’s only one curry I dig in Harajuku, it’s Piazza Eco-Farm’s vegetable curry! It’s the best organic shop in Harajuku. Been going there for years. Try it out.
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.
Summer 2007, Harajuku was mgdrized. The Misfits/MGDR sticker stayed there for about a year and a half. great.
Sometimes I shoot in color (my baby GRDII likes it too)! I like cables, always fascinated by outdoor/street cables… Harajuku Dec. 2007.
