Each parka is the color of the Pokemon it represents, with the hood being the only obvious Pokemon part. Snorlax is the exception, since the front of the parka has a lighter tan circle to represent ...

Few anime franchises can rival Digimon’s ability to make nostalgia feel fresh again. While Pokémon has been churning out collaborations and plush drops nonstop, Digimon just stole the spotlight with a ...

Artist **Laurie Simmons’**s latest show is called “Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See,” and it opens tonight at Salon 94. After working on a more human scale in The Love Doll Days/Days 1-36, Simmons, ...

It was the discovery of Hatsune Miku, a fictional Japanese pop star whose voice stems from a Vocaloid, a singing voice synthesizer, during a trip to Japan last year that was the starting point for the ...

This morning my boss called me into an office. "Look," he said, "Street is supposed to be serious, like seriously cool people. We don't want furries in animal costumes! It makes the whole thing a joke ...

Laurie Simmons’s new show, “Kigurumi, Dollers, and How We See,” portrays women in interior spaces. What distinguishes this new work from her series “The Love Doll: Days 1–30,” however, is the way ...

Both of these items are made of polyester. Both the Persona 5 Royal Morgana and SMT Jack Frost kigurumi are 150cm from the top of the costumes to the bottom cuffs of the leg, which means they are ...

Kigurumi (see: THAT ADORABLE SKELETON) is apparently all the rage in Japan and now it's gaining popularity with the kids (I know because of the YouTube videos of under-age types opening packages and ...

After Laurie Simmons made The Love Doll Days/Days 1-36, a series focused on lifelike Japanese dolls photographed in a variety of domestic settings, she realized that she had plenty more to explore. “I ...