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He also found the time to DJ for the popular Japanese hip hop group, the Teriyaki Boyz, and today has three restaurants in Tokyo. During his time with Uniqlo, Nigo has brought his multi-facited ...
A new project between the Nippon Foundation and the city of Tokyo has garnered famed Japanese designer NIGO to lend his creative talents to designing public toilets. “THE TOKYO TOILET ...
For decades, the iconic Modernist furniture born out of the era has been popular at auction in Tokyo: Nigo himself traded in Eames chairs before amassing pieces by the likes of Isamu Noguchi ...
Yet, in this article in Upstart Business Journal, the Japanese designer talked about not wanting to grow the brand too quickly, and not being accepted by Tokyo's fashion community. Nigo says the ...
The Tokyo Toilet Project brought together a total of 16 well-known creators, from architects Andō Tadao and Kuma Kengo to art directors Katayama and Satō Kashiwa to fashion designer Nigo ...
With A Bathing Ape and Kenzo designer Nigo setting convenience store chain ... I - like seemingly every other Hongkonger - ...
the culture--shifting streetwear brand Nigo founded in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood in 1993. Then came the bejeweled dollar signs commemorating the Billionaire Boys Club brand he cofounded with ...
Japanese streetwear legend Nigo has more iterations of the recently ... at Humanmade.jp and at the Otsumo Plaza in Minami Aoyama, Tokyo, for $150 each. Nike also confirmed that the black pair ...
Nigo's first Nike collection drops on Saturday, Sept. 28, exclusively at Otsumo Plaza in Tokyo, humanmade.jp, and at the "I Know Nigo 2" pop-up store in New York. A global launch for the ...
But growing up in Tokyo in the 1980s, the teenage Nigo was as much a fan of The Checkers as his peers. And when the Checkers adopted a ’50s rocker aesthetic in the ’80s—all slicked back hair ...
“The first time I saw [Nigo-san’s] archive in Tokyo years ago, it blew my mind,” Williams said in a statement. “It felt like I was walking into a time capsule.” “Pharrell and I are ...
“I’m here for about a week each month,” Nigo told me. During these sojourns from his home in Tokyo, he rises with the sun to keep up with business back in Japan, which includes overseeing ...