NEW HANDMADE EARRINGS FROM HARVEST

Some more new handmade earrings and bracelets by HARVEST are now available for international orders from UGUiSU online store!

100% COTTON SCARF BY ILOITO

Lovely 100% cotton voile scarfs newly arrived from ILOITO feel so soft against your skin and each scarf is seamless with a fringe finish.

6 designs available.

*specifications:
100% combed cotton voile 18"/45cm (w) x 72"/182cm (h) approx. (including the fringe).
printed on one side, using eco-friendly water-based pigment ink.
each scarf has been hand washed once.

Made in Japan.

100% Cotton Scarf "fuwatto" by ILOITO

NEW FUROSHIKI : LEAH DUNCAN x LINK COLLECTIVE

The latest Furoshiki from the Link Collective are these 2 lovely designs "Mountain Blossom" and "Angles" created by Brooklyn artist Leah Duncan. Both really great designs for Furoshiki - multi cloths that can be used as wrapping cloth, carrying bag, scarf, picnic mat, wall art and so on! All of the LINK Furoshiki are hand printed in Japan by Japanese craftsmen using traditional techniques.

Mountain Blossom Japanese Furoshiki Cloth by Leah Duncan x Link Collective

Mountain Blossom was designed by Brooklyn artist Leah Duncan and she says "design was inspired by the famous cherry blossom mountain view in Japan at sunrise. The elements are subtle, which creates a delicate and abstract pattern when the furoshiki is wrapped, folded, and worn"

Angles Japanese Furoshiki Cloth by Leah Duncan x Link Collective

Angles is also designed by Leah Duncan - "Inspired by the angles and shapes of Japanese origami techniques, the elements of this design weave around the fabric to create a bold geometric pattern that reflects my roots, mimicking elements of the traditional tapestry designs found in the southwestern United States"

WHAT IS FUROSHIKI??
Furoshiki (風呂敷, fu-rosh-ki) is a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth. It can be used in multiple ways, for bundling or gift-wrapping all sorts of things – from lunch boxes or books, to watermelons and bottles of wine. You could even tie it into a handbag or use it as a scarf, a baby blanket or even a wall hanging. One simple and beautiful piece of cloth and the list is endless. Tie it and see!

Each Furoshiki comes with a leaflet that includes how-to-fold-furoshiki instructions.
There are many more wrapping techniques for Furoshiki!

 You can make bags from a piece of Furoshiki cloth on its own, but you can also use leather carry straps to make quick and easy Furoshiki bags.

Mountain Blossom Furoshiki looking lovely in our Tokyo store.

Leah Duncan design Furoshiki by Link Collective are available from UGUiSU online store for worldwide shipping with reasonable shipping - only $4.20 by standard airmail to most parts of the world.
VISIT USUiSU ONLINE STORE TO SEE THE ENTIRE FUROSHIKI COLLECTION -->

All photos are by Link Collective ©Martin Holtkamp

ku:nel Wear

ku:nel Wear (ku:nel Kiru) is a clothes focused mook of the Popular Japanese lifestyle/home/interior magazine "ku:nel". Great photographs, great styling, good read (though the text is all in Japanese).

Buy ku:nel Wear online at UGUiSU.

FUDGE December 2011 Issue with a free mina perhonen stationery set!

FUDGE is another of my favourite Japanese fashion magazines that I regularly read. The current issue comes with a free stationery set designed by mina perhonen and it is just so cute and hard to resist! The set includes a sticky note pad, sticky tape and a pen all exclusively designed by mina perhonen for FUDGE.

FUDGE December 2011 Issue with a free mina perhonen stationery set

SO-EN October 2011 issue

A monthly Japanese fashion magazine SO-EN's latest October 2011 issue is a special SO-EN 75th year anniversary issue and it comes with a complementary clear file of the cover girl. The popular Japanese fashion brand mina perhonen, mother, sally scott, etc are featured and very excitingly, dress making patterns of mina perhonen and "mother" are included!

SO-EN October 2011 issue

SO-EN Magazine {March 2011}

The new issue (March 2011) of SO-EN fashion magazine was released today and is now available for purchase at UGUiSU online store! TOKYO! is the main theme of this issue and many new fashion brands and desingers from Tokyo are featured. Another great issue!
SO-EN {March 2011}

particle of mina perhonen

"particle of mina perhonen" has every little element which mina perhonen is made of and shows the wonderful craftsmanship that is involved in making their amazing works. In the beautifully bound 80 pages of this book, you will see plenty of creative inspirations by photographs, sketches and texts. (Texts are written both in Japanese and English.) It is contained in a lovely cardboard case, too. But please be aware that this is a secondhand book, not new, and the cover is a little bit worn out around the edges, but overall it is in a pretty good condition.

particle of mina perhonen

SO-EN January 2010 Issue

SO-EN January 2010 issue is another must-buy issue! The cover girl Kiko Mizuhara is one of the main actors in the recently released movie Norwegian Wood which is based on Haruki Murakami's novel -she's so cute! This issue features mina perhonen on their 15th anniversary, and also introducing lots of wonderful new artists and creators in different creative scenes in Japan and in the world.

SO-EN January 2010 Issue