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GQ Japan April Issue | Virgil Abloh, Tourist in the Fashion World

An English translation of Yusuke Koishi's GQ JAPAN style column on Virgil Abloh, the 3% rule, OFF-WHITE, Louis Vuitton, and the figure of the tourist in the fashion world.

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FASHION, DISCRETIZED HUMAN AND ITS MODALITY #1 – Fashion to Create “New Human Beings”

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THE END OF “HEISEI” AND THE BEGINNING OF “REIWA”. THE BIRTH OF “CONTEMPORARY FASHION” AND “MACROSCOPIC FASHION DESIGN”

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #13 – Japanese Recruit Suits and Hay Fever

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STUDIO VOICE vol.414, “SELF-FASHIONING FROM ASIA” – Fashion and Music, or Mode and Street

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Why Is the World So Crazy About Street Culture? — Street Culture Will Change the World; Fashion Hacks “Class”

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FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#8 “Local, Global, In-Between”

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #12 – Fashion as Knowledge: On the Figure of ALIE WEAVER

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #11 – The “Make America Great Again” Hat as a Fashion Item

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #10 – On Fashion

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #9 – Reality of “International Society” – YUSKE OKABE

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FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#6 “Everyone Is in Need of a Dark Space Again”

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The Birth of Contemporary Fashion: How Comme des Garçons Made the Non-Trivial Ordinary — A Review of The Met’s Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between

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FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#5 “Next Decade / From the Periphery to the Near Field”

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #8 – Tokyo: A Friend from Hanoi Arrives, Gears Echoing Through a Long December

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #7 – Bangkok with the Generation of Future Masters – Saran Yen Panya and Noon Passama

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #6 – Hanoi: The Navel of the City and Its Keeper – Nguyen Qui Duc

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #5 – Meeting an Eastern European Stranger in a Tropical Metropolis

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #4 – John Dove and Molly White: Their Ideas Will Never Run Out

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FREE MAGAZINE ISSUE#3 “NEW MIND NEW LOOK” | The Present as Narrative: Interview with Ben Lerner

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #3 – Ben Lerner: Reality Becoming Narrative

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #2 – Akira Takayama: A Story Hidden in Reality

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Essay Series “Walking Now” MISHIMAGAZINE #1 – Michael Wolf

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Agency for Cultural Affairs FY2015 Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists: Research Report

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STUDIOVOICE #7 — Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong Trilogy