‘Some school leaders' petty insistence on inflicting their own lack of anything resembling panache or style on to people who are experimenting with versions of who they might be smacks, to me, of horrific jealousy of youth.’

‘Why Japan’s young consumers are turning away from luxury goods’.

‘Why do Japanese construction workers wear baggy trousers?’

In some Korean schools, ‘students with naturally brown or curly hair [must] carry ID cards proving that they have not colored or permed their hair.’

Seem LV is run by people every bit as distasteful as their customers.

Japanese video demonstrating how to apply eyelid glue. I was so freaked out the first time I saw someone doing this on the train.

In ten years, this will look absurdly dated. In twenty, it'll be cool again. In fifty years, it'll be the mid-21st century's equivalent of steampunk. Maybe.

'The Czech terms include ... na debila (means asshole-style).'

Abercrombie & Fitch are keen on shirtless males, but when 50 of them turn up at a store, they’re suddenly not so keen!

Wow, those really are ugly!