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This week in fashion #8

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Breaking news Lady Gaga will be the cover star of the second issue of Net-a-porter's Porter magazine. She's as far from the idea of "the Porter woman" as you can imagine, but as we all have heard, uninhibitedly commercial cover decisions are all the rage these days. Any celebrity with a marginal connection to fashion ... Read more

Tokio Kumagai: Shoes to eat

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Tokio Kumagai Shoes to eat

Clockwise: ice-cream sundae shoes, meat shoes, red-bean rice shoes. Before Lady Gaga's meat dress, there were Tokio Kumagai's meat shoes. Shoe designer Tokio Kumagai first produced his Shoes to eat (Taberu kutsu) series in 1982, reviving Elsa Schiaparelli's trompe l'oeil technique from the 1930s. As the title would suggest, the shoes were not edible. Kumagai ... Read more