It's been fifteen years since Gwen Stefani released her debut solo album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby, which featured an ode to her love of the Tokyo neighborhood, Harajuku, and its influence on the ...

Gwen Stefani is once again addressing longstanding charges of cultural appropriation, doubling down on her controversial Harajuku era. The "Hollaback Girl" singer, 53, has faced decades of cultural ...

Omotesando is an area defined by a strong urban identity with a strong axial thoroughfare in an area defined by winding, non-linear streets. The urban corridors are recognizable by the wide sidewalks ...

Tracing Japanese streetwear back to its birth will inevitably lead the curious to one well-defined place and time in history — the backstreets of Tokyo’s Harajuku district in the early 1990s. However, ...