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Travel5 min read
Daikanyama and Nakameguro: Tokyo's Slow Shopping Hill
A select shop that moved uphill in 1979, a bookstore wrapped in its own logo and a river where the cherry branches meet over the water.
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Travel4 min read
SoHo, New York: A Streetwear Guide From Lafayette to the Bowery
Cast iron, cheap lofts and a skate shop that opened in 1994. How the blocks south of Houston became the place menswear lines up.
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Grooming5 min read
The Safety Razor and a Modern Guide to Wet Shaving
King Gillette's 1904 patent sold 51 razors in its first year. Now the double-edge is back, and shaving with one well takes a lighter hand.
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Style4 min read
How Detroit Workwear Became Carhartt WIP
An importer in Europe wanted the real American thing. Thirty years later his version of Carhartt sells collabs with sacai and runs over 100 stores.
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Style5 min read
The Penny Loafer Started in a Norwegian Village
A fjord shoemaker, a Maine bootmaker with a pun for a product name, and a coin in the strap that nobody has ever fully explained.
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Travel4 min read
A Streetwear Pilgrim's Guide to Tokyo's Ura-Harajuku
The backstreets behind Omotesando gave the world BAPE, Undercover and the modern drop. A walk through where it happened and how to see it now.
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Sneakers4 min read
New Balance 990 and the $100 Grey Runner That Never Left
In 1982 New Balance put a three figure price on a grey suede runner. Six versions later, the 990 is the shoe the fashion world borrowed from dads.
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Sneakers4 min read
Nike Air Max 95, Sergio Lozano's Anatomy Lesson in Neon
Sergio Lozano built a running shoe out of a spine, a rib cage and muscle. London named it after its price tag. Tokyo started robbing people for it.
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Tech4 min read
Sony Walkman and the Birth of Personal Audio
How a blue and silver cassette player from Tokyo turned music into something you carry, and why the TPS-L2 still shapes the way we listen.
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Watches4 min read
Cartier Tank: The Rectangle That Outlived Its War
Louis Cartier looked at a Renault tank and drew a wristwatch. Six were made in 1919. A century later it is still the shape of quiet money.
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