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After someone took a photo of me wearing the Space Invaders kimono in a train station and putting it online, Twitter completely blew up so that the photo/tweet was seen by 1.4 Million people and was retweeted over 15,000 times. この間、手作りのスペースインベーダー着物でお出かけしたところ、駅に「着物の写真を撮っていいですか？すごいですね！」との事がありました。 顔なしの写真でしたのに、次の日ツイッターを見たら友達からのメッセージで「コレもしかしてアンジーですか？話題になってるよ！！」で先日の写真が！！ とんでもない事になってた！オー 今まで見た人の数はなんと１４０万人で、リツイートは１万５千回以上です。 I didn’t know about it until a friend tweeted me like “Is that you, Anji? This tweet is going viral!!”...

It's that time of the year! The new SALZ Tokyo 2016 Summer Shirt Collection just dropped! SALZ Tokyo新作を紹介！2016年の夏Tシャツコレクション。

Yesterday I went to Kimono Rock Tokyo, a 3 day pop up store event (10th 11th and 12th of June 2016) in Harajuku featuring cool modern kimono brands. 着物ロック東京へ行ってきました☆ 原宿である「スペースさくら」三日間の着物イベント（２０１６年６月１０〜１２日）でした。 The kimono brand Rumi Rock hosts this fun get together sometimes and always invites fun and popular modern kimono brands. (See my post from last year: http://www.salz-tokyo.com/kimono-rock-tokyo/ ) This season Modern Antenna, Rumi Rock,...

Last month I was invited to join a fun group of kimono enthusiasts and check out a lovely kimono exhibition in Tokyo. The exhibition carried the name of Junichiro Tanizaki (a famous Japanese novelist 1886-1965) who wrote about and drew many women in lovely (now antique) kimono. The gallery showcased a lovely collection of taisho roman kimono and accessories and was hold in the...

One of my favourite modern kimono brands Rumi Rock had a pop up store in the Shinjuku Isetan Shopping mall the past days. 好きなモダン着物ブランド「ルミ ロック」の伊勢丹新宿店ポップアップショップに行って参りました♪ They just released their new Yukata collection for 2016. I am not the biggest Yukata fan myself, but wanted to check out their items in general. (Unfortunately Isetan is a bit strict with a no photo policy so I...

Today I have some awesome news I'd like to share with you! 素晴らしいニュースはあるよ〜♡ 着物美人「KIMONO BIJIN」のオフィシャルライターになりました。