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Nigo founded A Bathing Ape in Ura-Harajuku in 1993, on backstreets most Tokyo visitors never found. Travel is for that kind of address. The guides are built around neighborhoods where something gets made or sold with care, and they explain the history before the shopping. Savile Row in Mayfair gets a guide to how a bespoke commission works and how to visit without wasting a cutter's time. SoHo in New York, Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles and Le Marais in Paris are mapped through the stores that shaped streetwear and the ones that came after. Copenhagen and Milan during design week lean toward furniture and architecture. Kyoto is about craft, and Seongsu-dong in Seoul is a former factory district now full of independent shops. None of the guides list opening hours or prices, which change too often. They tell you what you are looking at once you arrive.
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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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