WISE AND HIP JAPAN

Few hints if you are about to visit Tokyo.

Make sure you go first to Daikanyama (up and coming hip local area)Edgy boutiques, some of the best cafe culture in Japan, and Fumihiko Maki’s Hillside Terrace make the Daikanyama area one of Tokyo’s hippest neighborhoods, featuring a fascinating mixture of the cute, the cutting edge and the retrospective.

Superfuture map gives a terrific insight to the cool stores around the area.

Aoyama is another 'Must See', as a chic-district with fascinating architecture.Elegant and daring crowd dressed in a muted experimental way.(Yes it is possible :)

Magnificent Prada Store on the left.

Jacques Herzog describes these glass panes as ;“An interactive optical device. Because some of the glass is curved, it seems to move as you walk around it. That creates awareness of both the merchandise and the city—there's an intense dialogue between actors. Also, the grid brings a human scale to the architecture, like display windows. It's almost old-fashioned.”I just looooved it.

And The Comme de Garçons Aoyama Store is a marvel at its unique atmosphere amongst the other sharp and angular structures by Japanese designers… To me, it looks like a fishtank from the outside and it’s like a maze inside. The architecture and interior concept of this store basically represented the uniqueness of brand character of Comme de Garçons with the use of blue- a colour rarely used in architecture.

Of course there is Shibuya with lots and lots of inspiration everywhere.

Cant wait to go back..

MADONNA I LOVE