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Drake’s in Tokyo: A Conversation with Keiji Kaneko

One of the best things about clothing shops in Japan is that they often don’t really look like shops at all.

Boutique, opened by Keiji Kaneko, is in Aoyama, a polished part of Tokyo: Skyscrapers, office workers on their to and from something important, and a handful of fairly soulless and expensive stores by major European fashion houses. His, however, has the feel of something slightly more intimate. A quiet street and a single story building, a small collection of beautiful clothes placed behind vintage glass cabinets. The furniture looks like it could have been sourced for an exhibition.

A Tokyo Style Story with Toshihiro Yasutake

On a sunny day in Omotesando, Tokyo, our friend Toshihiro Yasutake takes us for a walk around his adopted city. 

We first met Yasutake due to his many years spent working at Beams, but he is also someone whose expression of personal style we’ve long-admired. “I grew up collecting sneakers and magazines,” he says, “which I suppose has grown into a life-long interest in clothing and menswear.” 

Gone Fishing with Atsushi Hasegawa

Atsushi Hasegawa doesn’t know how he found fishing, or how fishing found him, it sort of just happened. Growing up in Nagoya, an industrial city between Tokyo and Kyoto, his father—who had little interest in standing on a soggy shoreline all day in the hopes of catching a trout—would drive him to the nearest body of water and leave. “My dad hates fishing!” says Atsushi, smiling at the memory as his hands piece together a fly in his garden in Somerset.

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