Later that evening, revelers headed over to the fashion-week closing party, sponsored by the culty Paris shops Colette and Le Baron, at another just-opened spot, the event space Belle Salle in Shibuya. Disco balls spun, laser lights swiveled, and partiers raised their Champagne and shot glasses as the New York City disco-punk band the Rapture played a career-spanning set, including a handful of tracks off of their forthcoming album. The event wasn’t only the debut of a new party site, a celebration to end fashion week and an exercise in branding (the upstairs V.I.P. lounge was split in half, with one side paying homage to Colette and the other to Le Baron); it was also a Halloween bash. “We’re a little Cheap Trick-ish,” said the blond-wigged Rapture frontman Luke Jenner between songs to a crowd overwhelmingly dressed as escaped convicts (prisoners: big in Japan, apparently). Later that night, the Vampire Weekend boys took over the decks, with the best costume award going to the bassist Chris Baio for his sailor get-up.
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Rag & Bone Inside Rag & Bone in Omotesando.
Rebecca Willa Davis To close Fashion Week in Japan, the New York City disco-punk band the Rapture played a career-spanning set at the event space Belle Salle in Shibuya.
Of course, this was just a warm-up for the next act: Tokyo Designers Week, the annual showcase for furniture and product design. Among the many standouts at the massive main show in Aoyama Free Web space and make money online, Tokyo’s unofficial design district Free Web space and make money online, were BitPlay’s Bang Free Web space and make money online! lamp (think the Clapper, if it let you turn off lights by pulling the trigger of a plastic gun), Nanoblock’s camera collaboration with Pentax and Chanto’s wooden mugs modeled after disposable coffee cups. Also vying for the design-obsessed’s attention were two satellite shows — the edgy DesignTide Tokyo and the tech-centric Design Touch — both a quick cab ride from the Aoyama grounds. The three events were a magnet for some of the most promising talent in the world. “A reason why we come here to Tokyo Designers Week is the community,” explained Matthew Waldman, the founder of the American accessories brand Nooka. “I just can’t imagine that in New York. I’m optimistic that one day I won’t have to come to Tokyo to get this feeling, but right now I do.”
Not even the typhoon that hit Tokyo on Saturday could keep the city from enjoying its own perfect storm: last weekend’s overlapping of two major design events, Japan Fashion Week and Tokyo Designers Week.
It kicked off Friday with the official opening of the Rag & Bone Omotesando store. The sixth brick-and-mortar shop for the America-based, British-in-spirit label (and its first outside of Manhattan) takes up three floors of a rustic and cozy house on a winding side street in Harajuku. David Neville, one half of Rag & Bone’s design duo, said during a press preview earlier in the week that while he and his business partner Marcus Wainwright had been mulling over opening a store in Asia for a while, the shop’s genesis was swift: “We saw this place and decided to pull the trigger — it was built in a month.” In order to keep what Neville calls the label’s “footprint” intact, they sent over a guy named Squirrel (who has overseen the construction of Rag & Bone’s previous stores) to help with the custom-made tables and shelves displaying chunky knit sweaters and lace-up oxfords. “It’s so welcoming,” Neville said. “It’s quite emotional, in fact.”
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