Tokyo displaced Paris and London as Hong Kong’s fashion reference point

Evidence

BAPE’s Hong Kong launch caused a media frenzy, forever transforming the city’s fashion ecosystem. Tokyo supplanted Paris and London as the main source of fashion inspiration for Hong Kong’s affluent youth. The local magazine Milk, founded by editors with close ties to Tokyo, became a pipeline for information about the Japanese fashion scene. Over the next decade, streetwear became the defining style for youth across Greater China. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 754

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• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the trees-as-infrastructure piece only tangentially; more directly shows taste flowing through decentralized nodes.