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The Punk Spirit: Japan's hippest young fashion designer makes his first foray into the world of art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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In a cavernous basement-style studio in Tokyo's hip Harajuku district, Takahashi Jun, the man some call the future of the Japanese fashion industry, is drawing a picture of a pistol. “This is what we call an ‘art jam session,’ “he says, through a cloud of smoke from an ever-present Marlboro Light, passing the sketch to his friend, the Japanese-American artist Madsaki, who draws what looks like the US White House underneath Takahashi's original gun.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 5 , May 2005 , e23
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