2 episodes
Men's File Podcast The Tokyo Crow
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Men's File is the world's most influential vintage-style publication. Conceived and developed in London, the hard-copy magazine is published in Tokyo – the heartland for collectors of revival, replica and vintage fashions, custom motorcycles and objects of desire from the mid-century period. The remit of the magazine is to seek out those covert scenes and reticent individuals that inhabit this realm and present them in an elegant and non-exploitive way. This podcast is produced with the same remit.
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The Tokyo Crow: The Tito Deler Interview
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The Tokyo Crow is a programme that investigates style-based phenomena in or connected with Japan. The subject matter of this podcast links directly with features in Men’s File magazine, the world's biggest selling vintage-style publication. In this, our second episode, our editor-in-chief takes the listener inside the often opaque world of a frequent visitor to Japan. Also known as The Original Harlem Slim, Brother Tito Deler is a New York based blues singer and songwriter. One of the world's leading street-stylists in the area of mid-century revival fashions, Tito has collaborated many times with Men's File magazine and has recently appeared on the cover of issue 20. Brother Tito Deler a.k.a. the Original Harlem Slim is a regular on the pages of Men’s File and graced the cover of issue 20. In this interview Tito talks about his love of the blues, his life on the Upper Westside of Manhattan in the 1970s and 80s and explains his take on style. We also have 3 tracks from his forthcoming album, It’s a Beautiful Thing. You can find out more about Tito's style at www.mensfile.com -
The Tokyo Crow: Vintage Shibuya
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The Tokyo Crow is a programme that investigates style-based phenomena in or connected with Japan. The subject matter of this podcast links directly with features in Men’s File magazine, the world's biggest selling vintage-style publication, but presents them in greater depth and offers the listener those vivid mind-pictures that are unique to the medium of the spoken word. In this, our first episode, our editor-in-chief takes the listener around the Japanese capital's epicentres of fashionability: Shibuya, Harajuku, Daikan-yama and Naka-meguro. You might find it informative to look at an online map and trace the various routes we take AND investigate the stop-offs in more detail. So, let’s get on with the journey. Arigato gozaimasu
The Tokyo Crow