Paul de Vries

In Masterpieces of the Renaissance from the Musée du Louvre, being held at the National Art Center, Tokyo, a painting of Leonardo da Vinci has traveled to Japan for the first time since the historic exhibition of the Mona Lisa in 1974. Leonard da Vinci's masterpiece, Portrait of a Woman, is the highlight of fifty-six diverse works selected from the Louvre's collection.

A night of sleep in a Pokemon ball @Pokémon/Nintendo/Creatues/GAME FREAK (photo by newcolorinc) Pokémon is a juggernaut of Japanese popular culture that has been running strong for thirty years. The NOT A HOTEL company was created in 2020. It creates high-end, architecturally distinctive villas that are operated under a form of timeshare. NOT A HOTEL has designed and constructed a Poké-Ball-themed hotel in collaboration with Pokémon.

Shinobu Uchida (center) and the wearable memories of her travels. Image provided by Global Fashion Collective. On September 1, the Global Fashion Collective held its biannual show within the Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. Global Fashion Collective is a Canadian-based organization formed in 2017 to cultivate the future of global fashion talent. The show featured Japanese designer Shinobu Uchida, as well as Americans Shoshoni Hostler and Perry Jones. Shinobu Uchida works under the name SHINO.