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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Mon May 16, 2005 6:24 am

Kuang_Grade wrote:Pico Iyer's lament of the closing of her local combini


Pico is a guy.


You know, I have no problem with rich people writing about luxury. But there is something about Brule's approach that is particularly snobbish and conceited. Not to mention the fact that his articles are boring as sin.

Wasn't this guy a war correspondent who almost got killed in the crossfire? You'd think that sense of adventure he once had would somehow come out in his articles.
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Postby dimwit » Mon May 16, 2005 8:53 am

Who the fuck is Tyler Brule? Until this thread I had never heard of him. Seems he is a Canadian. Insert Joke here _______________________.


From International Speaker Bureau

Almost everything you see, read, wear and do has been influenced by Tyler Brule.


Now there is a scary thought. A tad full of himself I gather.
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Postby Kuang_Grade » Mon May 16, 2005 3:03 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:
Kuang_Grade wrote:Pico Iyer's lament of the closing of her local combini


Pico is a guy.



You're totally right...I have this odd mental mismatch between Jan Morris and Pico Iyer...While I can keep their books straight, if you say "Pico Iyer", my mind pulls up an image of Jan Morris.
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Postby Taro Toporific » Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:01 pm

dimwit wrote:Who the fuck is Tyler Brule? Until this thread I had never heard of him. Seems he is a Canadian. Insert Joke here _______________________.
From International Speaker Bureau
Now there is a scary thought. A tad full of himself I gather.


We can rest easy Dimwit. Tyler Brule now seems to be British.
MacArthur leads seven to shape the nation
The Times, January 09, 2006
A RISING star among the City's fund managers, an adviser to Tony Blair, the creator of a style-setting magazine and the country's most famous yachtswoman are among seven Britons named today as 'young global leaders' who may help to shape the future of the nation....
....The seven Britons named this morning include Dame Ellen MacArthur, the yachtswoman]Tyler Brule[/u], founder of the magazine Wallpaper...
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Postby Mulboyne » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:59 pm

FT Letters: Citizen Cool, living it large in Japan
From Mr Takashi Ito.

Sir, Guy De Jonquieres should read Tyler Brule's Fast Lane column in the Weekend FT. Then he will not be saying that Japan is overly dependent on the old economy, and asserting that Japan is "ill-suited to mastering the turbulent and fast-changing demands of the services-based 'new' economy" (A 'normal' Japan may not be all good news", June 22).

Mr Brule, the most discerning jet-set citizen of Planet Cool, loves eating at Royal Host (24 hour family restaurant chain), shopping for books and DVDs at Tsutaya (mega national chain), flying ANA, wearing United Arrows jeans, not to mention his write-ups on furniture, architecture, pop music, travel bags and luxury Toto toilet seats designed by the Japanese (as you can see, Tyler, I have been lapping it up). Ordering a semi-bespoke suit at the flagship United Arrows store, having your hair cut, or even buying a latte at any Starbucks in Japan, is to know that the Japanese consumer has it so good, and there can be no higher level of service in any other country in the world. And how about Japan's prowess in animation, surely as remote from the old economy as you can get?

The only reason I can think of that these "intangible" industries are such a small part of the overall economy is that the competition is so intense that aggregate value-added is low compared to the very profitable and successful old economy industries. And remember, these old economy companies engaged in the very same cut-throat competition in cars, radios and cameras for decades before they went and took on the world (and cleaned up).

And do not be so hasty to write off the old economy sectors either. Sure, shipbuilding should be left to the Koreans by now, but not others such as automobiles and machinery. These are not "diminishing assets in a world where competition from developing countries are intensifying" at all! Who decided that developed countries could only do "inspired marketing" and not make any tangible goods? Is a nation of copywriters the only way for an industrialised country to remain relevant? If people followed this advice Honda would have stopped making cars a decade ago instead of becoming one of the most successful car companies in China. Fanuc would have become a game software company rather than benefiting from the industrialisation of China and India by selling them robots (yes, really!) and numerical controls (Fanuc makes 37 per cent margins and builds everything in Japan, by the way).

Please let us avoid easy sweeping statements on the pages of the FT; and thank you, Tyler Brule;.
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Postby Captain Japan » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:28 pm

Who is Takashi Ito?
The painter is dead
The doctor seems to be teaching in Kansas
The game developer might be working
The professor in Kyoto
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Postby Mulboyne » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:49 am

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Postby Captain Japan » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:08 am

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Postby Greji » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:57 pm

"There are those that learn by reading. Then a few who learn by observation. The rest have to piss on an electric fence and find out for themselves!"- Will Rogers
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Postby Mulboyne » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:03 pm

I've been a bit lax posting Tyler's Tokyo moments. Here's something from last year:
...I knew I was in for an irritating flight as soon as the canapes were placed in front of the gentleman across the aisle...I noticed that he was incapable of eating with his mouth closed. Initially I dismissed the bad table manners as post-take-off nerves or a mild case of "upgrade excitement" but rapidly concluded that he was a "smacker" - the airborne adult equivalent of the screaming one-year-old...On several occasions I considered saying something and in the end had to resort to headphones to delete the sound of a pasty tongue disengaging from sticky gums...

...I picked up Gaby for the Asian portion of my tour - and her first trip to Tokyo. As ever, the city put on a good show. In Marunouchi I visited the flagship store for Darjeeling Days - the latest concept to come from the United Arrows retail group. Aimed squarely at the male FT reader who doesn't want fashion but does want an elegant, high-quality wardrobe, the concept is already going national across Japan. In Ginza I visited the atelier of Shigeru Takizawa, who's fast becoming Tokyo's most sought after bespoke tailor. In Shinjuku I marvelled at the new-ish Isetan men's store and decided it's the new global benchmark for menswear. Although I didn't need any new garments, I still managed to walk out with a summer trilby from the old-school Tokio Hat brand, eyeglasses from Four Nines and some crisp cotton Gunze briefs.

Remembering that this was also a cultural/social study for Gaby, I took her over to the main Isetan building and gave her a tour of the pinny and slipper section. There's been a proliferation of labels churning out housedresses, aprons, headkerchiefs and little felt booties, so everyone residing in Ebisu and Aoyama can pretend they're either living off the land in Norway (the Ogg brand has cornered this look) or raising chickens in the Piemonte region of Italy.
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Postby Iraira » Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:45 am

Please, for the love of whatever is holy in your life, stop posting things that Creme Brule writes. It's giving me a severe case of net rage.
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Postby Greji » Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:53 am

Iraira wrote:Please, for the love of whatever is holy in your life, stop posting things that Creme Brule writes. It's giving me a severe case of net rage.


Rage? from the Brute Brule?

Wow!
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Postby Iraira » Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:19 am

gboothe wrote:Rage? from the Brute Brule?

Wow!
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I might just be having a bad hair day or perhaps it's the weening off of Viagra, but at least I got home in time to watch 1,000,000 years BC with Raquel Welch, so that should even me out. Nice how all these blonde cavewomen had nice 1960's style doos and smoking bodies that wouldn't have survived half a winter. Maybe this is too low brow for Brule. I'll go to United Arrows tomorrow, I promise, Mr. Brule. I need to be fashionable.
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Postby Taro Toporific » Sun Jul 09, 2006 2:40 am

Iraira wrote:.... I'll go to United Arrows tomorrow, I promise, Mr. Brule. I need to be fashionable.


Be sure to wear Buttboy Brule's "some crisp cotton Gunze briefs."
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Postby Iraira » Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:03 am

Taro Toporific wrote:Be sure to wear Buttboy Brule's "some crisp cotton Gunze briefs."
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I really don't feel comfortable putting anything "crisp" down in the nether regions. Oh wait a minute, they're sponsored by Shinjo, which means that they gotta be mediocre.
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Postby Captain Japan » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:06 pm

It would appear that Tyler's got himself a new bag...
At last - something for the weekend that holds everything
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Do Friday mornings in mid-July fill you with a certain sense of panic? Do you lie in bed waiting for the alarm clock to wail while figuring out the logistics of how you're going to squeeze in four meetings, a lunch and time to buy gifts for the friends who you are staying with over the weekend? Does your brow get damp when think about the late afternoon dash you're going to have to make from desk to taxi to train to airport in order to make the flight to Naples, Istanbul, Valencia or Innsbruck? Somewhere between the shower and the sink do you start to despair about what and how you're going to pack so that you can move effortlessly from a Kilgour suit to something more appropriate for your arrival on the tarmac at Pisa?
...clip...
Since then I've been combing army surplus stores, vintage luggage shops, charity outlets and regular retailers to find such a bag, but have failed to unearth the perfectly constructed carrier that I know will forever change the way I enjoy weekends. All that changed on a visit to my favourite bag shop in Aoyama last week.
...clip...
Last weekend I put it through its paces on my summer commute up to Sweden and it managed everything brilliantly - even fittting under the seat in front of me. Here's what it dealt with:

*one pair of navy Loro Piana trunks

*one pair of olive Principe trunks

*one white short-sleeved, half-button- front Oxford shirt from Beams

*one short-sleeved blue broadcloth shirt from Forum in São Paolo

*one pair of APC jeans

*one pair of chinos from Incotex

*sneakers from Duffer

*assorted sneaker socks from Muji

*assorted underwear from Schiesser and Palmers

*one Ballantyne navy cotton jumper

*one too-large bottle of Vetiver Cologne from Comme des Garçons

*one navy Loopwheeler polo shirt

*smallish toiletry kit

*Apple G4 PowerBook

*Docomo and Nokia mobile phones

*a jungle of cables

*copies of Brutus, Pen, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and the Economist

*one Smythson notebook

Not designed for the amateur packer, I'd recommend the Porter Terminal bag only for professionals who know how to do a good wardrobe edit before venturing off for the weekend. While I'd like to tell you that this bag is readily available in all the markets where this newspaper is sold, for the moment it's only in Japan. That said, it's worth making the trip for a bag that makes for a better weekend.
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Postby Greji » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:37 pm

Captain Japan wrote:It would appear that Tyler's got himself a new bag...
At last - something for the weekend that holds everything
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"....*smallish toiletry kit

*Apple G4 PowerBook

*Docomo and Nokia mobile phones

*a jungle of cables

*copies of Brutus, Pen, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and the Economist

*one Smythson notebook

*one large sized AC powered combination dildo and chainsaw with extension cord

Not designed for the amateur packer,...."
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:22 pm

Singing the praises of Narita!? That's it! Brule has just crossed the fucking line.
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Postby Kuang_Grade » Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:52 pm

Tyler is working a pretty weak premise...How orderly the airport is probably more a reflection of the populace's feelings towards powerful government/central organization and management of transportation facilities vs the underlying habits of populace.

While I would think it would be unlikely for someone to say they loved NRT, that said, NRT certainly one of the least noxious airports I've ever used, and it is much better than any US airport I've used in the last 30 years.
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:01 pm

Kuang_Grade wrote:Tyler is working a pretty weak premise...How orderly the airport is probably more a reflection of the populace's feelings towards powerful government/central organization and management of transportation facilities vs the underlying habits of populace.

While I would think it would be unlikely for someone to say they loved NRT, that said, NRT certainly one of the least noxious airports I've ever used, and it is much better than any US airport I've used in the last 30 years.


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Postby Captain Japan » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:04 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Singing the praises of Narita!? That's it! Brule has just crossed the fucking line.

Tyler just launched a new publication. Monocle has a Tokyo office. So I doubt he'll have anything negative to say about Japan for quite a while.
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Postby gkanai » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:10 pm

2300 yen is an asinine price for MONOCLE. I paid that once, but I'm not going to pay twice the printed price for that magazine, especially if they have a Tokyo office.

How much do you want to bet that the Tokyo office is about sourcing content for the magazine, not distribution. the market for MONOCLE in Japan is miniscule.
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Postby Mulboyne » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:59 pm

gkanai wrote:How much do you want to bet that the Tokyo office is about sourcing content for the magazine, not distribution.

I think you've got it in one. I saw a CNN profile of Nakata when he had just retired from football and part of it was a meeting with Brule who wanted to get him on board as a contributor/advisor for the magazine. Brule believes that by having a Japan office, he can get access to designers and photographers that aren't well known overseas. And, as the thread title says, he loves Japan so he believes that the office gives his magazine some cachet.

I picked up Monocle and the content currently reads like only a slightly weightier version of an in-flight magazine. I would want better quality articles before bothering with it again but I don't think that's the market they are aiming for.

There's an uncomplimentary review of the magazine here.
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Postby Captain Japan » Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:02 am

You people should be ashamed for missing this piece of puke...
Tyler Brûlé: Tokyo urbanism project is hard to top
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Just over a week old, it feels like it's been part of the neighborhood for a good five years because there are no lingering workmen and somehow the landscape and paving teams have managed to integrate the entire development seamlessly into its surroundings. In the park that gently opens up to the Akasaka district behind the main tower, a playground is being put to good use and angular pairs of cubes in the corners of flower beds guide joggers around walking/running paths with elegant typography. Anchoring one corner of the park, the retailer Muji has launched a store that will hopefully serve as a model for the rest of the world. Wrapped in raw timber, the store features fashion and furniture collections found only at Midtown, a feature that is a big part of the story with all of Mitsui's tenants in the project. Standing out from the entrance on the Roppongi side of the galleria area, the hyper-trendy fashion retailer Restir's store is more high-gloss nightclub than a refectory for Chanel pantsuits and slinky evening dresses by Burberry. On the home- and lifestyle-focused top floor, there's a store dedicated to the products of the industrial designer Sori Yanagi and a few doors down the Aoyama design institution Wise-Wise's store is heaving with women in sharply tailored skirts and twin-sets buying dainty sets of glasses or exquisitely crafted objets. In between there's the entrance to the Suntory Museum's impressive art collection.

Somehow he missed the strip club across the street. Or does Midtown have a strip club for that seamlessness?
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