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Ura-Harajuku is a tangle of narrow streets behind Tokyo's Omotesando, and in the 1990s it held tiny shops such as Nowhere, which Nigo shared with Jun Takahashi of Undercover. Travel Guides are written for trips like that, planned around what a place makes rather than a list of sights. The Savile Row guide explains how bespoke commissions work and how to browse the Mayfair tailoring houses without getting in the way. Kyoto is about craft traditions such as textiles, ceramics and woodwork. Copenhagen and Milan focus on furniture and design, with Milan timed to the Salone del Mobile in April. The Seongsu-dong guide maps a former industrial neighborhood in Seoul now full of independent brands and cafes. New York, Paris, Los Angeles and London's Soho get streetwear and shopping guides that lean on history as much as on addresses. Every guide includes notes on etiquette and getting around. None of them list opening hours or prices, so check those before you go, and leave room in the bag for something you did not plan to buy.
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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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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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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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Roma and Condesa: Mexico City's Art Deco Comeback
A neighborhood laid out by a circus owner, a racetrack you can still jog around and the earthquake that emptied both before they came back.
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Le Marais, Paris: A Style Guide to the Old Marsh
Royal squares, salt-tax mansions and a 2013 concept store on a side street. The Marais rewards anyone who walks it slowly.
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Copenhagen Design Guide: Hospitals, Hotels and Room 606
A design museum in an eighteenth-century hospital, a hotel built down to the cutlery and a square that has sold furniture since 1925.
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Berlin Mitte: Squats, Galleries and the Long Walk West
A margarine factory turned art institute, a department store with four lives and the East Berlin streets that taught the city how to shop again.
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Savile Row: A Visitor's Guide to Bespoke Tailoring in London
Two and a half centuries of cutting, fitting and quiet rivalry on one Mayfair street, and how to walk in for a first fitting without feeling out of place.
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Seongsu-dong, Seoul: From Shoe Factories to Pop-Up Capital
Seoul's old shoemaking district now hosts Dior, ADER and more pop-ups than anyone can count. The workshops are still there if you look.
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Milan Design Week: How Salone and Fuorisalone Actually Work
One trade fair in Rho, a few thousand events across the city and six days to see them. A field guide to April in Milan.
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Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles: The Streetwear Block After the Boom
A Jewish deli street turned streetwear capital turned cautionary tale. Fairfax is quieter now, and more interesting for it.
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Kyoto Craft Guide: Tea Caddies, Knives and Canvas Bags
A knife shop that started as a swordsmith in 1560, a tea caddy taking more than 130 steps. Kyoto still makes things the slow way.
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London's Soho and Dover Street Market: A Streetwear Guide
From John Stephen's His Clothes in 1957 to Rei Kawakubo's beautiful chaos on Haymarket. A walk through London's best square mile for clothes.
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