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Founded by film producer Andy Okoroafor,CLAM is a unisex magazine whose goal is to promote creativity, concepts and ideas in fashion, architecture, music, design, the arts, free-time, travels and African design…. these different themes are approached in two main areas: Lifestyle and Trends. 
Each subject is part of an original and conceptual artistic direction. The [...]

This in from Hairfish: 
Everyone goes nuts over Roppongi, and I admit, its interesting but Shibuya is where it’s at, mainly because it’s where the locals hang out. It’s far more affordable to spend a night in Shibuya and even go to a pub or a club without spending over 5,000 YEN (that’s about 50 USD). [...]

The blogger over at Gaijin Smash (list in the Black Tokyo Japan Blog Roll) had me rolling in laugher with his The Devil is Prada posts. Here is an excerpt:
That’s another thing I forgot to mention last time…quick cultural lesson, often times when you enter a store, the Japanese clerks will say “irrashaimase!” Kind of hard [...]

African-Americans have approximately 900 billion dollars in buying power and are more apt to spend it on fashion than their other cultural counterparts. With that said, here is a very interesting OpEd written by Paul Boakye in response to Italian Vogue Magazine’s all Black issue:
  

Please, please, please, please - no more invitations for me to [...]

I received an email today asking me what Japanese women wear in the summer. My response was along the lines of: “It depends!” Depending on age, attitude, location, and other things that determine what’s hot and what’s not, you may find many women in Japan wearing something that keeps them cool and comfortable.
One company that [...]

Interview with Miss Universe Japan 2008 Finalist
By Timothy Coghlan
Nice to meet you Hiroko, can you tell me a little about yourself?
I’m a beautiful woman with a Japanese heart (laughs). Everyday I want to be beautiful inside and out and have a wide point of view and consider the world. I’m a finalist and so we [...]

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