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You know how people are always banging on about how totally fucking mental the fashion coming out of Tokyo is but can't actually name any labels? Well, they should check out Anrealage. Kunihiko Morinaga's label is consistently looking to reimagine the established shapes and forms of clothing every season. That means one collection will be full of inflatable dresses that mimic the body shape of Roseanne-era John Goodman, the next might be geometric clothing sculptures that unfold into something you can actually wear, and the next might look as if it's been designed while staring into one of those body-morphing circus mirrors.

Then there's all the other stuff, like the entire range of pixellated clothing, the gold bead suit, the patchwork-effect dresses, the alphabet range, and the insanely detailed, multicolored beaded coat. Fully conveying the range of Anrealage's clothes and the differences between every collection is almost impossible, so I had a chat with Morinaga to try and understand where all of this is coming from.   

Okay, whether or not you believe it, the general consensus is that 2012 may mean the end of life as we know it. Yes, I know it seems inconceivable that the computer screen you're reading this on may not even exist in under a year's time, but it is a possibility. Hell, all that money you've been hoarding all these years for a spree at Selfridge's is about to swallowed up and, to be honest, you won't even know as you'll probably be dead. And even if you aren't, there won't be anywhere to spend it.

So, there are two ways you can deal with this. You can go out and rack up some serious debt—there won't be any bailiffs—living it up like you've always wanted to in the hope the world does in fact end, which I am in NO WAY ADVISING, or, you can stock up on shit in an attempt to maybe survive the holocaust and restart humanity. The latter, I am hoping you have chosen. Otherwise you probably just ran out to the bank to see if you can get a credit card so you can turn your house into Jerry Seinfeld's apartment or Snake Mountain from He-Man.

Here, head to toe, are some of the things you're gonna need to face the end times, should you survive and want to stay alive.

As is clear to see, 21-year-old fashion blogger Henrik Silvius is severely disabled and confined to a wheelchair. He also has 70 jackets, designs his own shoes, updates his fashion blog multiple times daily, will be styling a show at Copenhagen Fashion Week on Friday, and straight-up loves fashion.

Berlin Fashion Week falls during the Paris men's shows but it's still a big deal because of the huge number of people in town for streetwear mega-show Bread & Butter, alongside a handful of smaller tradeshows such as Bright, for folks into skate gear, and Capsule, where you'll find more fashion literate and less commercial labels like Norse Projects, Wood Wood, Warriors of Radness, and also, weirdly, Topman—WTF? Exactly. Unlike Bread & Butter, with its million euro stands and bus system, Capsule is just a collection of rails in some rented rooms. To find out exactly what Topman are up to we caught up with Topman's head of wholesale Miles Wilson while we were out there.

Anyone who spends any time on the web will have noticed gifs are everywhere right now, we wanted in and got together with Josh Greet for a shoot and he even answered our questions.

I know it's a little late, but I've decided that my new year's resolution for 2012 is to not buy anything unless its advertising campaign has explicitly involved either skateboarding or dubstep, preferably both, because, otherwise, how the hell am I going to be certain that it's hip? Last year was a clusterfuck of totally misguided purchases, something I realized could have been easily remedied by just bloody knuckling down, paying attention to the TV, and noting that more or less any cool product featured skateboarders prominently in its advert.

Skating wasn't only used effectively to sell stuff, but also in music videos by the trendiest, most innovative artists on the planet, and in a shit-ton of mega-relevant, on point fashion shoots. The great thing about using skateboards in shoots is that any notion of stress concerning styling, or whatever, goes straight out of the window, because once you chuck a board in there, every element of skateboarding's rich, romantic history gets thrown in there too and that shoot instantly becomes an authentic part of the cultural zeitgeist, no questions asked.

The t-shirt collection by 'Sup Magazine and Danish masters of laid-back streetwear Wood Wood is a perfect example of a collaboration done properly. I spoke to Marisa Brickman, editor at 'Sup, and Brian Jensen, one of the two head designers at Wood Wood, about their .

We're always being told that we should be more like the rest of the fashion industry and stop being so into sportswear and music and get with the man bag program. If we were reviewing Milan fashion week, the city where most of the big high fashion menswear business is done, that would probably be apt, but the labels that show in Paris aren't really about shifting suits, even if sometimes they pretend they are. No one cared about Givenchy until they started making what is essentially streetwear. No one gives a damn about Dior now that it's not sold off the backs of new musicians. Mugler's big because of Nicola Formichetti's marketing genius, not because the suits are a recognized phenomenon, and Raf ceased to be important around about the same time the blazers took prominence over the teenage sci-fi fantasies. Maybe Kim Jones' Louis Vuitton proves this theory wrong, maybe not, but anyone who knows anything about Kim, knows he loves thugs and sportswear. So forgive us for worrying about the sort of shows that make fashion fun and not droning on about tailoring.

To that end, we had fashion writer Dan Thawley review the more exciting shows for us.

Andy Capper, VICE's global editor in chief, recently co-directed A$AP Rocky's new music video for "Wassup"—an ode to Harlem, 40s, OG Kush, and gold teeth—which is premiering on VICE today. To celebrate that, and partly to revel in how fucking amazing the Harlem rapper and his A$AP Mob are, here are some choice things that nearly made us give up following established fashion magazines and blogs, in lieu of just taking all our style inspiration solely from a 23-year-old perma-stoned MC.     

Berliner, Amanda Morgan Jansson sent us this shoot of her and her buddy Emma messing around in the bathroom. The first couple of times I looked at it, I didn't notice it was two different girls, but it totally is. They called the shoot Marian Apparitions because it's all Virgin Mary-ish, if she was locked in a bathroom with a huge bag of make-up, a homemade Burger King crown, a Fuji Instax, and a Holga.