"I don't want to be replacing those leading-edge shops," she told me.
Like all the best up-and-coming neighbourhoods, Cukurcuma's cutting-edge shops and bars exist side by side with centuries-old tradition.
Milly Edge, 19, shop assistant.
On the plaza's edge, Cultural Revolution shops sell the souvenirs of 1966-76, including black and white photos from discarded family albums — detritus of a city in flux.
See, even though the gray dress with black lace overlay was custom-made, she's not a spendthrift, or as Fashionista.com noted, "We have to give FLOTUS a slight edge for shopping her closet".
If you survey the stylish crowd and the space — two intimate rooms with white-painted floorboards, sleek white communal tables and a wall-high bookshelf of international magazines — it makes sense that the canteen-style spot was once a cutting-edge fashion shop.
Open Mon-Sat 10am-8.30pm, Sun 10am-8pm If you're more interested in alternative comics and otaku culture than the current manga and anime mega hits, then head for this small, well stocked, underground book and cutting-edge culture shop located inside Nakano Broadway.
For style-obsessed Tokyo, always striving to be 10 degrees ahead of New York and London, this 29-acre, $4 billion complex of curving glass, minimalist metal and earthy stone arrives after a decade in gestation, offering an enticing conglomeration: cutting-edge restaurants, shopping, a hotel, movie theaters and art, as well as a 54-story office tower and a residential complex.
Rising in a sandy lot between a school, a few houses, palm trees and a congested, two-lane road edged with shops are the peaks of tents, the beginning of a camp to shelter hundreds of Iraqis who fled fighting in the town of Falluja.
The cafe began 25 years ago with a couple of tables, a counter and display cases at the edge of the shop.
