A Decade of Tattoos in South Korea...
It was not so long ago that tattoos in South Korea were entirely taboo; assumed to be reserved for those living on the fringes of – or entirely out...
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Introducing... MAOTA
Talking to Masa, the designer at Maota, was a little bit like talking to myself, which his wife Alisa [who is half-Japanese and half-German] also com...
PTMAD: Uniqlo
In 2003, sci-fi writer William Gibson wrote the book Pattern Recognition, which prompted people then - and ever since - to ask me a] if I’d met him...
Read the room, Streetwear.
2020 was the year I fell out of love with Stüssy. Yes, of course, lots of other things happened last year, but this is the sentence I’m opening wi...
Talking Japanese?
The Japanese language is a hard one to learn, trust me; I’ve been trying to learn it on and off for nearly seventeen years [rubbish of me, huh?]. S...
What We Can All Learn From Schitt's Creek
On Sunday night, Schitt’s Creek [finally] won an incredible amount of Emmy’s [9] for their final season - including a historic first wh...
5 coffees a day while the consumer's away...
The BBC announced today that Pret a Manger is to offer customers up to five coffees a day if they sign up for a monthly in-store subscription servi...
Age before authority?
Campaign Live today is once again addressing the concern that adland prizes youth over experience after WPP Chief Exec Mark Read commented boasted...
Empty Tokyo
For years we have been sold images of a frenetic Tokyo through pop-culture; whether it’s movie moments of a protagonist crossing the infa...
Get Out and Vote!
Today’s the day we’ve all been waiting for [read: dreading] — it’s polling day! We get to vote on what has been claimed to be a once-in-...
Kendama: Exploring the Favourite Skill-toy of the Underground
There isn’t much that can be considered underground anymore. Subcultures reach the mainstream and become ubiquitous cultural norms so oft...