THE TOKYO LOOK BOOK

Philiomena Keet, photography by Yuri Manabe

Kodansha International (Bookwise International)

US$29.95 Au$39.95 NZ$48

Wow, this is dazzling stuff! The claim is often made that Tokyo is one of the most fashion-conscious places on the globe and looking through this astonishing book one feels that that claim is no exageration.

The book provides a journey through the streets, clubs, boutiques and fashion neighbourhoods and the trendy teen and twenty somethings that inhabit them.

Fashionistas will be lining up for this one.

Philomena Keet is a British anthropologist whose PhD is in Tokyo street fashion while Yuri Manabe is a Tokyo-based photographer whose cutting edge portraits have appeared in Marie-Claire, GQ, Rockin-on and many other magazines.