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post a commentCool and relax...
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From his waist down there is a matching pair of shoes, a matching pair of legs and a matching pair of shirt tails, perfect symmetry! Great natural light too x
such crazy harem pants!
it suits him though...
x
Tiffany
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Interesting!
He rocks
his hat is perfect x
them trousers are awesome the whole makes him lok abit short though. i still love it
Roman @ http://fashionwhatsnext.blogspot.com
Superb execution of patterns and proportions.
his skin tone is so interesting. it makes the clothing just that much more sophisticated but playful. love this
I like the colors and the concept, still hate the proportions.
there is such a bizarre combination of elements going on here... so wrong yet so very very right. goes to show having a bit of confidence in your stance (and keeping things crisp - the shirt i mean) goes a long ways. very offbeat. xx
definetly works on him.. the hat sets it off.
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I really don't like the look... He's just not my type of character.
gorgeous
Nice styling!
cool,, u have a nice blog
greeting from stockholm
interesting clownish outfit.. hat doesn't fit though
Nike for the win
he looks a little bit stange for me... but his outfit is interesting :-)
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Black in Summer.. how bizarre
I love black/white but this image reminds me Weege's photos with people in pajamas out of their houses in flames.
looovee it!
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very very cool!!!...you are incredible
Striking fellow and I like everything except for the shirt tails and them pants.
I don't like the pants, they look strange next to the shirt tails. And they end at an odd place on his leg, this looks slightly diaperish. I like the running shoes and the shirt and black sweater though, kudos for trying something so different.
i think this is funny, but not elegant!
the top part is great, the lower part is interesting but not for me at least. That also makes him shorter as well.
I wonder how long it took him to come up with that outfit? I just don't care for the overly-contrived look.
YooHoo - Boy George wants his outfit back!
Sorry - normally I love everything about your blog, but this outfit....moves me to sarcasm....
I am LOVING your blog.
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Fashion is also about context. What in an other place would be completely unfashionable suddenly makes sense when seen in for example Japan or Italy - same thing with the controversy about blazer, blue shirt and shorts: it totally works in its context, thumbs up for this great combo. Did travel a lot and always took care what to pack depending on the destination...
Gotta give it to the Japanese: they know how to re-invent clothes-matching.
You go to Milan for tradition and to Tokyo for creativity...
comme des garçons, yohji et nike. cool.
Not boring at all!
I'm not sure about that hat!
rad pants!
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wow!
this is a favourit!
i relly like B/W nowadays.
and dots are my weekness, too.
:)
szucs
Would it be impossible to declare a global BAN on those Air Jordan-type sneakers?
Nice! Who makes the shoes?
Goofy...
Love the proportions, color and silhouette. I'm also loving the hat with this look. On the other hand, the pattern on the harem pants, aren't getting the same love.
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Have a lovely rest of your day,
Isabel
one of the best looks since weeks!
I wish we see more of this and less of booted and suited Italians
Well, I want to like it but somehow it doesn't gel with me--maybe too clown like--but I love the colours and patterns.
The angle of the photo from down below makes for the short legs/oversize upper body to look more pronounced.
everything looks perfect, except for the outfit should only be worn by tall people. It only makes him even shorter. Failed.
I can't believe people actually walk around on the street like this. This man is wonderfully eccentric!
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How kooky- but he makes it work somehow with the more sober top half balancing out the pants/shirttails
I love the symmetry of his pose but I would have liked to see this in motion too see whether he looks cool or ridiculous walking down the street!
the shoes!! cool
One can never go wrong with black and white =)
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A great send-up of Western fashion---even the westernization of the dhoti-like pants.
Love the polka dots and sneakers.
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I'm not sure if I love it or hate it.
Interesting photo. The Japanese have a great way of playing with proportion, line, and pattern, and you see all of that here. This would be a great companion piece for your photo of a month or so ago of the two Japanese men in the contrasting black and white kimonos. That was one of my favorite photos of yours. Keep up the great work!
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I absolutely love the shape of the shirt hanging down under the jumper. He must be sweltering though :)
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those pants are daring!
i really enjoy his hat and his fearlessness. there are not too many men wearing harem pants, let alone with polka-dots.
but the hat is my favorite and in fact i covet it!
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This outfit is fun to look at.Thanks!
The big, simple shapes feel sharp, fresh, the two shirt-tails pristine as a cotton sheet on a clothesline.
Who cares if it "looks good" on him? That seems beside the point, to me.
Ah...No,no, no.
his eyebrows are bleached.
No, too too.
Japanese always have their way of mixing print and a piece of clothing with unusual cutting.
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MM, it looked great until I scrolled down to those hairy white calves. ;-)
i love the idea of the outfit itself, although the clothes kinda make him look way fatter than he should be. otherwise, fab photo!!!
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he looks so.... comme des garcon.
It was the first thing that popped into my mind. I don't know how else to describe this lovely photograph.
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I like his hat. :)
This photo makes me deliriously happy. God, that silhouette is just so awesome. I mean, I'd never replicate the look, but I'd probably stop the guy in the street and tell him how great he is.
.... This is awful.
I LOVE this. I was in Tokyo last October and the style factor on the streets was extremely inspiring. :)
I love japanese streets style
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His feet are positioned perfectly- for nike's product placement pleasure!
god, it's just so COOL the way Japanese peeps play with proportions! This seems like a theme running through many Japanese streetstle looks, and I lurv it!
Love the symmetry, tonality and the most inventive use of what looks like an antique formal shirt, judging by its extra long tails and collarlessness.
Somehow this seems despite its eccentricity to be a 'typically' Japanese male approach to modern dressing - can anyone define?
like it! and have been looking for inspiration for my harem pants, shall try layering them .... ; ) thanks x
I love it! MUCH prefer seeing these eccentric types to the more orthodox stylish (like the guy below) who tend to look a bit goody-two-shoes to me. Also enjoy how this provokes a wider spectrum of comments.
Vive la difference!
(Especially digging the hat and the facial hair.)
it looks like he got no clothes in his size. The whole thing makes him unproportional.
amazing look! love the hat so much! wow!
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So "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me".
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he looks like a bad fashion clown!!!!!
I cant understand the statments, this is a great example of our currently World Fashion. Everyone do what he want.
Miss the 50s, with the Man in suits!!!!
I love your blog and your pictures!!!
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Kiss Kiss
I.
It's definitely not a slimming look, but there are some great things going on--a large plane of solid black, a smaller plane of solid white, and two patterns of different scales--a small and a large--in the pants and shoes.
His look is all about the different types of contrast he's using. Introducing another strong color into it might have been too jarring, but the subtle cream of his hat is just enough to offer some relief from the rest of his outfit. You'll notice that nowhere do two same-ish colors engage each other--I think this might be why he's left the shirt untucked.
I like, but whithout nike and socks
I dislike seeing grown men dressing like little kids. I see this all around my neighborhood in the summer. It's quite disconcerting. And there many of them are, in their mid-thirties, out in traffic on skateboards, setting a fine example for the real kids.
hmm
you travel everywhere; everywhere but new zealand
Interesting layering, which is also usually fairly cool in summer (why haven't I thought of that, instead of sticking to one color only?), black and white almost always "safe", except that one must avoid looking too much like a nun or a widow...
Am not keen on sneakers, but they fit his frisky personality. I adore the white shirt paired with black jumper and hat. Not to keen on the trousers, but they look good on him. Love his facial expression, too!
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love it! the japanese have THE best style on the planet!! xx
foolish fasionable not stylish
Cool but not something I'd want to be cought dead wearing.
haha this one made me laugh, but I like his big shirt a lot!
looks like a pilgrim
Very CDG. looove it!
this guy is so cool....and he knows it
comme on!
Nice look. I have only two quibbles:
1. The branded shoes detract.
2. What's with the seemingly assymetrical hem on the "sweater"? Makes it look a bit sloppy.
Reminds me of Blondie from the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Nice look.
LOVE
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Nice one! i think the trousers are comme de garcon ! love them...
xxx
I love him. His hat is outstanding! The black and white, my favorite pairing of non-colors, is extremely flattering on him. I disagree with another reader who deems him a child in his apparel choice. Once again, this is an Asian thing and I love it. They are all about personal freedom and highly artistic self expression when choosing their look. Good choice, even when its over the top, is very cool when done well. He knows how to do it. We have to always be thinking outside the box or we shut ourselves out to new ideas and self expansion.
The drop crotch pants look like they are from BLACK Comme des Garcons.
I like the idea, but I think this looks a bit too silly and clownish.
This may be the best photo I have seen in a while. The mix and match of black and white makes me dizzy. Classic!
Dana
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great shirt !
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I want his shoes.
great dotted pants
absolutely relax!
Nice pictures! ;D
not my taste personally - but you need a gutsy personality to walk like this on the street!
I REALLY LOVE THAT ONE !
It's so cool and so funny.
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ah ah... the hat looks really good yar.. :)
gotta love those polka! :))
This guy pulls his black-and-white nightmare of an outfit off confindently...one person uses the word symmetry and you read it more than once. Where it is in this outfit is not evident to me.
whoever said "black in summer", it's japan, the weather can be pretty moderate this time of the year.
It's so funny, but not sexy.
likes this.
I probably COULD like this look if something were subtracted from it. But as it stands...I think it's fug.
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Agree with the above - very CDG. It all just seems to click together. Nice.
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gotta love those polkas! :))
japan does it again, what can i say... 'unagi' - always aware ;)
i cannot love this outfit, and i'm glad that i don't. the volume of his jumper is great, but the harem pants just look ridiculous--i find that few women can pull this off, never mind men. and the pattern, and the shirt tails. this is one of those things that in context can be pretty nifty, but if it was me, i know i'd look back at this picture in 2 years and be like, "what was i thinking?" glad this made it on the blog though. cheers for confidence, anyways, that's half the battle.
The pants look like a dress shirt.