TROPOLISM

One of the amazing things about Tokyo is the beadth and depth of creativity that goes into retail design. In the USA, we are only beginning to have something between high-end retail and crap. In Tokyo, there are a million little corners of beauty.

So it is with great pleasure, and no surprise, to see that our source for Tokyo love, Jean Snow, has linked to Tokyo design firm Wonderwall's newest and greatest projects. My favorite is the one pictured above, the Aoyama BAPE store, directly across from the kate spade Tokyo flagship I did in 2004. The store was a bit dated when I visited it a year ago; they've radically altered it.