Supremely cool Marcus showed up at Tokyo Record Style Day Volume 9 with his lovely Maki san, who I had never met before. Are these two just not coolest? I mean, both dressed in all black, Marcus with a fashionably utilitarian jacket, perhaps a black version of street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham’s iconic blue French workers jacket, coupled with some finely pressed high-voltage SLACKS, pink coral-colored (but subtle) geometric-patterned silk(?) socks, replete with some chunky black tasseled loafers. As for accessories, all understated, the sublimely unassuming Minolta CLE (a Toyota Crown Super Deluxe exterior and interior, but with a Porsche drivetrain), a proper belt that your father would both approve of, and be jealous of, a timepiece literally for ages (search “Marcus” on www.tokyo.record.style to see his vintage gold Timex and his masculine Onyx ring), a tote bag that says simply “This will do” and if the damn ramble-on-rose-tinted glasses didn’t tie the entire thing together, then it’s that goddamn regal “coiffure homme” – jeez, I mean just look at that thing? Can you spare some coolness for the rest of us mere mortals, Marcus, I mean REALLY!
And then you have très chic Maki, and I’m sorry Marcus, but there is nothing more lovely on god’s green earth than a nonchalantly glamorous Japanese woman with a posh British accent virtually unaware of her own allure, stealing the attention of even the AIR without trying. She STARTS with Thug Life sunglasses (reminding me of none other than Maureen AKA “Mo” Tucker of the Velvets) saying about her two-toned hair nothing but, “Deal with it!” (in British accent of course), simple black tucked tee, with a leather (really?) pencil skirt that, juxtaposed next to Marcus’s high voltage slacks, creates more zap than ghostbusters crossing their proton blaster streams. Then you have the brown-“I-don’t-care”-socks and some standard issue Doc Marten 3-eye oxfords, all the understated jewelry a lovely gal might need, and of course, a select vintage handbag that is even commanding MY respect. Could you two look just take it down a notch already. I’m overloading over here.
The truth is that these two are pretty darn cute. On this Tokyo Record Style Day, they actually spent more time poking around Organic Music’s better half, Planet Baby, run by Chee Shimizu’’s equally cool and lovely partner, Kanako san, who fills Planet Baby with art and goods as nearly as esoteric and obscure as the music offered next door. In fact, Marcus and Maki gave so much attention to the goods and exhibition going on at Planet Baby that they didn’t actually score any records, so I asked them to at least each offer up a recommendation. It was Chico Hamilton’s “The Dealer” from Marcus and “Blue Monday” off New Order’s 1983 sophomore release, “Power, Corruption & Lies” from Maki. Ok, I dare anybody out there to out-cool these two! Better to just give up now and start taking notes.
More Tokyo Record Style on the way!
Chico Hamilton Introducing Larry Coryell – The Dealer
Label: Impulse! – AS-9130
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1967
Genre: Jazz
Style: Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Latin Jazz
https://www.discogs.com/release/466632-Chico-Hamilton-Introducing-Larry-Coryell-The-Dealer
New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies
Label: Factory – FACT 75
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: May 1983
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style:New Wave, Synth-pop, Post-Punk
https://www.discogs.com/release/28848-New-Order-Power-Corruption-Lies
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