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...fashion labels in a high-low endeavor that has rocked Japan's fashion scene. Last year, the icon of Japanese haute expression, Yohji Yamamoto, joined forces with Adidas to sell a new line of sportswear, tagged Y-3. This month, Puma will showcase its latest sneaker collaboration with Yasuhiro Mihara, Japan's version of a younger, spikier Manolo Blahnik. Ironically, the decision of these high-fashion designers to come down from their ateliers and mix with the skateboard set is less their own than the imperative of the one sector of Japan's lackluster economy that's still spending...
...recognizable icons?an almost Pavlovian response to a society awash in symbolism. No surprise then, that one of the details that Takizawa is most proud of in his collaboration with Champion is the way he reinterpreted the sweatshirt maker's embroidered "C" monogram into a tricolor abstraction. Shoemaker Mihara, too, stamped his sneakers with a cartoon rendition of Puma's feline logo on the soles?an anim?-inspired touch that has won plaudits in Japanese fashion magazines...
This spring Nike will roll out Visi Mazy, a sling-back in woven fabric, available in "lime chill" and "midnight navy." It will compete against a line that Skechers is developing in denim and a sneaker from Puma created by the Japanese designer Yasuhiro Mihara. As Tony Bartone, Puma's director of brand management, promises, "These will not be found at Athlete's Foot." Which is exactly why the women's market could prove to be supremely profitable...
...About 500,000 South Koreans have formed an organization to campaign for the repatriation of their countrymen; Seoul now beams a radio program to the Sakhalinese Koreans with messages and greetings from relatives and friends at home. In Japan a similar association was formed by suburban Tokyo Housewife Rei Mihara...
...professor is not sure that he should make regular predictions of the eruptions of Mihara, once so fashionable for romantic suicides. Any increase in popular interest might make it the rage again. "There is a social problem," he says apprehensively. "The steamship company would advertise and make money...