Tokyo street fashion

The Tokyo fashion scene does not lack for coverage, but a new website I discovered takes an interesting mathematical angle on all the craziness. While running around Shinjuku (新宿) one day, a beautiful, stylish girl with thick, black glasses, perfect, short red nails and a killer angled bob stopped me to ask if her photographer could snap some shots of my outfit. Just the look of K convinced me that the whole thing was legit, but during the interview that followed, I grew to really like her and couldn't have been happier to help. As a fashion editor for ACROSS Street Fashion Marketing, her job is to scout out trends on the ground. She directs her photographers to document recurring themes and occasionally stops certain inviduals to do profiles on their entire ensembles. She said she was initially interested in my suede, over-the-knee boots since that footwear trend was being highlighted as their count item of the month. By the end of the thirty minute chat, we had discussed everything from the origins of my bag (a beloved birthday gift from Jake) to where I bought my pink, plastic digital watch (purchased prior to our China trip, when I was looking for something that could handle several wet and dirty weeks on the road). What makes this website interesting is the way it breaks fashion down into figures. A count is kept for how many times a featured item is spotted in Tokyo on a given day. That data is then further analyzed according to neighborhood and gender. The month that I appeared on the site, there was even a special section created for foreigner fashion. Check it out if you are curious about the everyday runway situation in a capital crammed with unique style.