Tokyo Fashion City: A Detailed Guide to Tokyo's Trendiest Fashion Districts

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The fashionable, eccentric pedestrians of Tokyo are captured with hundreds of portrait photographs in this fun guide to Tokyo street fashion. Tokyo is considered one of the world's style capitals for its vibrant youth fashion culture. Part guide book, part fashion photography album, Tokyo Fashion City takes a stroll through eight Tokyo neighbourhoods, each with its own unique fashion characteristics, to see what streetwise young Tokyoites are wearing, where they're shopping, what they're eating and drinking, and where they're hanging out. Author Philomena Keet and photographer Yuri Manabe accompany the reader to Harajuku where high fashion rubs shoulders with hip-hop style; to Shibuya, birthplace of the "gal" and stomping ground for Tokyo's most sophisticated fashionistas; to hipster hangout Daikanyama; to the goth and geek meccas of Shinjuku and Ikebukuro; to bohemian Koenji and otaku neighbourhood Nakano; to Ginza's lunching ladies and dapper gentlemen; to the cosplay paradise of Akihabara; and to the narrow lanes of East Tokyo, where everyday Japanese fashion gets a traditional touch. "While not a guidebook, per se, Tokyo Fashion City: A Detailed Guide to Tokyo's Trendiest Fashion Districts brings the colorful - and shockingly fashionable - streets of Tokyo to life. Not only for style enthusiasts, this beautifully-photographed book is also a great primer on Tokyo's most interesting neighborhoods, including chapters featuring trendy Daikanyama, Naka-Meguro, Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku, Shibuya, Koenji, Shimokitazawa, and many more." -BoutiqueJapan.com

Philomena Keet is a British anthropologist with a PhD in Tokyo Street Fashion from London University SOAS. She lives in Tokyo with her Japanese husband and two children. Yuri Manabe is a Tokyo-based photographer whose distinctive portraits have appeared in a variety of prestigious music and fashion magazines, including Marie-Claire and GQ. He and Keet are the writer/photographer team behind the popular Tokyo Look Book (Kodansha International, 2007), which was acclaimed for its presentation of "groundbreaking street fashion" (Elle magazine) and "great captions" (Vogue).