For many people in Japan, March is graduation season. However, due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, many students have been unable to see…

The “Yuru Hakama” series of roomwear is just one of the products to have come out from Mocolle, a Japanese brand that takes the ideas…

From Spain’s quinceanera, when females turn 15, to the United States’ sweet sixteen parties, cultures around the world celebrate when children come of age. In…

Yuru-hakama concept As we’ve reported before, Campfire Creations (previously known as Mocolle), a brand which takes creators, illustrators and designers’ ideas and transform them into…

Fans of Waki Yamoto’s beloved manga “Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern” as well as its animated versions on TV and, just recently, on the silver…

One of the co-winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine this year is Japanese scientist, Tasuku Honjo. His discovery paved the way for…

You might be familiar with the creative designs of Japanese brand Mocolle, a name which mixes the Japanese word for “fantasy” (mousou) with “collection” for…

Knowing you’ll be spending the entire day at home alone isn’t reason to throw on whatever or stay in your pajamas; quite contrarily, there’s no…

You may remember Wazigen Shizukuya, a fashion brand from Kyoto which strives to make traditional Japanese clothing more appealing as modern day fashion. They’ve done…

We’ve seen hakama, traditional Japanese pants worn over a kimono, given design twists before. Sometimes modern and casual for everyday use, and even full leather…

We’ve recently seen a lot of examples of spinning traditional Japanese clothing into modernized “cool” versions. Whether it’s a casual Kimono T-shirt, or the impossibly…

With the exception of jinbei and yukata being worn at summer festivals, you may not have a strong association between traditional Japanese clothing and modern…