Tokyo, Japan: meeting Tomoko Inuzuka @ Vermeerist Beams

 

- I think Japanese girls are all the same now.

Tomoko Inuza has a unique look for sure. Made up of Minnie‘s détails (yep Mickey Mouse’s girlfriend) and the creative outfits of the Indian fashion designer Manish Arora. Tomoko is certainly his biggest fan. Humoursly, she said: ” I want marry him“, a quick look at her Mickey watch. Tomoko and her husband Katsuhiro are the managers of Vermeerist Beams shop in Harajuku. A kind of boudoir presenting a colorful outfits and accessoiries selection of Japanese and overseas fashion designers, like the great Manish Arora of course. Funny, Tomoko and I were at his Paris Spring-Summer 09 show in Cique d‘Hiver, without knowing each other. Small fashion world! 

 

- I was at Manish first show in the London Fashion Week, four years ago. Very Bright colors: I’ve bought few pieces very difficult to sell in Tokyo. 

 

Tomoko regrets:

- Here young people have no energy and originality to get dressed. Three reasons: the parents buy their clothes. Magazines are bad: same styling, not interesting. Except the Nihon Vogue. And they spend all their money in mobile phones. 

 

The grim reality? We laugh.

 

 

 

Tomoko recommends the hype Aoyama, the trendiest area in town to me. Where bash shops have incredible architectures. Her choice: Comme des Garçons, Corso Como and Loveless. And serious Tomoko concludes with:

- Fashion is my life.

Domo arigato Tomoko.

 

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