Yoko YagiTokyo Street Style

I’m probably being very low-brow about this book, so forgive me. Lots of interviews, definitely more of a meditation on Tokyo fashion; minimal photography, with a focus on rather mundane-looking clothes. If you’re looking for something really fun or wild (like I was), you’d be better off looking elsewhere.

Any book that attempts to summarise the enormous, sprawling and ever-changing world of Tokyo fashion can only ever hope to be a snapshot in time. TOKYO STREET STYLE is a compact, enjoyably digestible, well-written and stylishly designed snapshot of the Tokyo fashion scene as it stands in 2018.The layout is easy to read, the photographs chic and reproduced in rich colours and high resolution, and the content written in flawless English, much in the style of similarly-themed, high-brow fashion magazines from the UK and the US.The flavour of the book seems targeted at voguish, twenty-something Japanophiles, featuring interviews with the movers, shakers and stalwarts of the capital's style scene - organised thematically in categories such as 'Vintage Finds', 'Genderless Style’ and 'Concept Stores’. It also contains a district-by-district guide for navigating the boutiques, accessory stores, eateries and museums of the metropolis.TOKYO STREET STYLE provides a great insight for the fashion-conscious who long to visit Tokyo, and is a useful guide for bright young things who are already there.