Earlier this month, the annual Kobe Girls Collection (神戸コレクション) was held at Kobe World Kinen Hall.   The Kobe Girls collection is a wildly popular 6 hour fashion show was hosted by Jun Natsukawa and Takatoshi Kaneko and featured about 70 top models (Marie, Lena Fujii, Alisa Urahama, Azusa Koizumi, Coco Kinoshita etc) and celebrities in Japan showcasing  over 30 fashion brands including those of  young and upcoming designers.

The Kobe Collection and its Tokyo counterpart  attract thousands of young Japanese womens with their ‘‘kawaii’’ (cute) fashions which are generally ordinary clothes that are on sale at shops in places such as Shibuya and Harajuku.  Read more...

If you’re a regular reader of Japansugoi, you will know we post a lot of sexy Japanese bikini gravure グラビアアイドル models like  Yukie Kawamura, Sayuki Matsumoto and Kana Tsugihara.  All these models have been featured on Japan’s most popular and established gravure idol magazine Sabra サブラ (like FMH, Loaded, Stuff in western countries)

Sabra was published by Shogakukan as a bi-weekly from June 2000 to October 2007 but since then the magazine became a monthly (coming out on the 25th of every month).  There are also several Sabra web sites  Read more...