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...shopping extravaganza, Los Angeles-based chain Forever 21 debuted its flagship store in Japan. Harajuku girls lined up on five floors full of clothes, shoes and accessories in enough of a dizzying array to make any young woman swoon. It wasn't the first time the giants of cheap chic had stormed Tokyo. Last November about 2,500 shoppers jammed the very same sidewalk for the opening of Swedish H&M, the world's third largest casual-clothing retailer, located next door. And that was just one month after the launch of British retailer Topshop a few stores down. (Read...
...point: Uniqlo, the local entry in the segment, seems to be doing just fine. Tadashi Yanai, a cheap-chic guru and head of Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, is now Japan's richest man, according to Forbes magazine. While most retailers are seeing same-store sales drop between 5% and 15%, Uniqlo's same-store sales rose 2.9% for fiscal year 2008 and 12.9% in the six months to February this year. "Uniqlo is the only big winner so far," says Murata of Credit Suisse, who thinks that for non-Japanese fast-fashion companies such as Forever...
...Find all things avant-garde at Cape to Cairo (100 Main Road, tel: (27-21) 788 4571), an interiors boutique specializing in unconventional objets d'art. Lose yourself among the driftwood, shabby-chic furniture, fireplace surrounds and chandeliers. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...their gallery in Istanbul. The walls are adorned with pieces by Turkish artists such as abstract masters Devrim Erbil and Adnan Coker, as well as works by international artists including Colombian sculptor and painter Fernando Botero. And next door is the Casa Dell'Arte Art Village, an equally chic 38-suite hotel with in-house artists who run free painting and sculpture workshops for guests - just in case looking at all that great art inspires you to create some of your...
Practically speaking, the aesthetic of our magazine is recession-chic. We weren’t able to go full color, the best paper, the nicest gloss finish. While ultimately it privileges content over spectacle, we did have to compromise a lot of wonderful color content. Most of the images you are seeing in here are representative of larger bodies of work that we weren’t able to include. Luckily we have the web as another platform, so please check out hbombmag.com...