Pokey Clothing Store” Pop-up at Cafe in Kobe’s Kyukyoryuchi with Shoe Brand

　On July 7, a pop-up event by the Kobe-based vintage clothing and sundry goods store “iCHiGEKiRiDATSU” will begin at the cafe “New LaFlare” (Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe; tel 078-333-0808 ) in Kobe’s Kyu-Kyoryuchi district.

Representative works of “iCHiGEKiRiDATSU

　The first “iCHiGEKiRiDATSU” store opened in Kobe in 1985. In 1995 (Heisei 7), when the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, the store suffered tremendous damage, but reopened in February in Shibuya, Tokyo, and has continued to operate in Kobe since its restoration. Due to the effects of the new coronavirus, the actual stores in Kobe and Shibuya were closed. Currently, the company is developing pop-up stores in various locations as a “clothing store that crashes.

　The company’s concept is to “create a mode using secondhand clothes selected with a unique sense of value, regardless of the era, genre, or category,” and its activities are wide-ranging, including providing costumes for movies, TV dramas, and artists.

　As part of the event, the shoe brand “iCHiGEKiRiDATSU” will open its first store in Kobe for a limited time. The brand’s designer, Kobe native Korai Oikawa, and “iCHiGEKiRiDATSU” founder and director Miniko Yasuda met when the store was operating in the Chartered Building, a modern building in Kobe.

　Ms. Oikawa’s shoes, which she says “can be enjoyed gender-free if the size fits,” have affinity with the store’s one-of-a-kind clothes and accessories, so they collaborated for the first time at a pop-up in Tokyo in April of this year.

　Ms. Yasuda says, “Oikawa-san continues to love the clothes and accessories she purchases at the assault clothing store, mending and reshaping them even when they are tattered, as ‘things that make me who I am. The “iCHiGEKiRiDATSU” has a timeless attitude, universal, neutral, and free, and is made entirely by hand by Mr. Oikawa, who faces himself too much deep in the mountains of Tottori.

　During the exhibition, a 20% discount on food and beverage at New LaFlare will be offered to those who purchase items in the store until August 31.

　Hours are from 13:00 to 20:00 (until 18:00 on the last day) until July 12.