PingMag has a nice post on the lovely design of these delicate and functional Parashell umbrellas and parasols by Canadia-born, Tokyo-based John Di Cesare of Di Cesare Designs Inc.

Two of my favorite brands, Louis Vuitton and Comme des Garçons, are teaming up to open a joint retail space in Tokyo. The store will be open for 3 months, and marks Louis Vuitton’s 30th anniversary of its retail presence in Tokyo. The Comme des Garçons store on Kottodori is being remodeled with Louis Vuitton contributing to the expense and with the profits shared among the two companies. For the pop-up shop, Rei Kawakubo designed six “one-off” bags in the LV monogram pattern, and can be ordered by shoppers.

Kawakubo described her designs as ‘party’ bags, promising multi-handles or two handles morphing into one. All will use the Monogram toile, with the LV initials, and the offerings will hark back to the styles of 30 years when Vuitton made only bags and leather goods.

This is one of the most exciting collaborations and I’m very excited to see how these compaines join to create one retail space. We’ll have to wait until September to see!

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A few months back, we told you about Chanel’s Mobile Art Museum, a traveling pavillion made to house art exhibits, and we’re excited to say that last week it touched down in Tokyo, Japan.  The museum houses original works paying homage to the iconic Chanel quilted purse and includes works by:  Blue Noses, Daniel Buren, David Leventhal, Fabrice Hyber, Leandro Erlich, Lee Bul, Loris Cecchini, Michael Lin, Nobuyoshi Araki, Pierre &  Gilles, Sophie Calle, Soju Tao, Stephen Shore, Subodh Gupta, Sylvie Fleury,  Tabaimo, Wim Delvoye, Yang Fudong, Yoko Ono, and Y. Z. Kami.   The most important work of the show however is the actual museum designed by Zaha Hadid.  The museum looks like it’s touched down from outer space and is very curvy, and features a loop design.  It’s the first travelling museum of its kind.  Future stops for the museum include New York, London, Moscow and Paris.  If you are in one of these cities, or are close to one, this is a definite must see!

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H&M has announced their next designer collaborator…and what better than Comme Des Garcons?!

This famous Japanese avant-garde label, will be providing a lovely range of men’s, women’s, and childrenswear, accessories and a new unisex fragrance, all thanks to Rei Kawakubo.

The collaborative line will be releasing in Tokyo (in honor of its Japanese roots) in November and will be launched everywhere else a few days later.

Luckily, I know someone who works at H&M and will be getting first dibs!

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Cultist, our favorite ladies’ online boutique was asked to curate an area of the Free’s Shop in Tokyo, Japan. Cultist brought over many ladies’ streetwear brands to the Free’s Shop including Mama, Married to the Mob, Darkhorse, Dimepiece, Hellz Bellz and Made Me. If you are around check it out!

Atmos Tokyo knows we, the human race, have a sweet tooth for all things Hello Kitty. Throughout 2007 they released many Hello Kitty collaborations, including t-shirts, hoodies, other clothing as well as small accessories. To finish the year, they now released a collaboration with Porter.

The Atmos x Hello Kitty x Porter collaboration collection consists of several pieces - wallets, porches, drum bag, tote bag and a messenger bag. The collection features an all-over Hello-Kitty design and each piece also comes with both the Porter tag and a Hello Kitty tag.

Check out all pieces in detail after the jump.

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Bigfoot will be preforming his live painting "thing" for the FTC 20th anniversary party Nov 2nd.! The only catch is it’s in Japan…So if you happen to be near the Shibuya district in Toyko get over to Club Camelot for the get down!

To celebrate the opening of it’s flagship in Tokyo, Gucci has teamed up with Apple to “present a fifth-generation iPod etched with the Gucci logo and cradled inside a silver La Pelle Guccissima holder.” This product is only available in Tokyo at the opening. . . so sad. I’m bummed that other countries get all the cool collabos . . . execs in the US are SLEEPING. If you’re in Tokyo go get it - and if you’re not - well, we can dream can’t we?

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