This feature is a collaboration between the POPEYE editorial team and our global contributors. We’re always working hard to find people with great fashion style, and this year’s edition is a comprehensive guide to what’s happening on the streets right now. If you browse through the photos carefully, you’ll surely find useful ideas as you think about the year. You can keep this issue close by and reread it later. You can also put it on your bookshelf as an archive and look back on it someday when you’re in search of something new.

To introduce this feature, we’ll first explain the cover, which has a slightly different design than usual. While it’s not fully bilingual, we hope that the English helps readers both in Japan and overseas get a sense of what we learned from our interviews around the world.

Snap & Survey The Styles!
As always, we start the issue by providing snaps of interesting styles from around the world. This year we photographed 171 outfits from 12 cities in 20 categories. The content includes:

We did an exclusive interview with London-born solo musician King Krule. King Krule met us in South Bermondsey and showed us four outfits that he styled himself. We imagined he’d be laid back, but he is quite meticulous, subtle, and a deep-thinker with a light touch. He speaks naturally when talking about the clothes his mother made him and his friends’ brands. He’s a true gentleman who cares a lot about the people around him.

Introducing seven group photos and their outfits taken during interviews with bands, their crews, their fan communities, and shop staff. Group photos are always interesting because they show you so many things at once.

What clothes do you wear and how do you spend your days? These questions are inseparable from your actual life, and we are particularly interested in outfits created by the necessities of life and ideas that have roots in our lifestyles. This time, we visited two towns, Squamish in Canada, surrounded by mountains and with a rich river, and Brighton in the UK, a coastal town about an hour by train from London.

London, Montreal, and Tokyo. Here is a documentary look at the daily lives of three young teenagers who are exploring “what to wear” while searching for their current styles and future paths.

Of course, style’s not just about the whole outfit, but also the details: What specific garments are they wearing and what are the interesting points of the design? Why do you choose and wear that outfit? We go deep to give you some solid ideas and help you make better purchases with minimal spending.