August 2026 — the floortok Journal
Journal
August 2026
10 stories
Mon 31 Aug · 1
Mon 17 Aug · 2
Gucci puts a Japan price on Demna's first Jackie for men: 473,000 to 539,000 yen
The archive lock returns on a men's shoulder bag from the autumn/winter Gucci Primavera collection, on sale in Japan from today.
AUTRY takes the ground-floor stage at Isetan Shinjuku Men's with a Japan-only capsule
Two weeks on the Men's Building ground floor, a Japan-exclusive apparel capsule and an advance drop of autumn stock — a template for how European sneaker labels are entering Japanese department stores.
Sat 15 Aug · 1
Wed 12 Aug · 2
Kao's SENSAI enters Thailand, opens a Jakarta flagship
Kao's prestige skincare brand SENSAI has opened its first store in Thailand and is opening a flagship in Jakarta, treating Southeast Asia's top department stores as one market rather than one country at a time.
Hermès reopens its renovated Kaohsiung boutique, marking 30 years in southern Taiwan
Hermès has reopened its renovated and expanded Kaohsiung boutique, the maison's only site in southern Taiwan since 1996, now spread across two floors designed by Paris-based RDAI — a quiet but telling investment in Hermès's Asia-Pacific store network beyond Japan.
Tue 11 Aug · 4
Fauchon's Kyoto hotel prices a 140th-anniversary set at ¥1,886 — the maison's founding year
Six eclairs, four Bizz Bizz cakes, and one set priced to the maison's 1886 founding — a month-long patisserie campaign built entirely around a number.
PARCELLE layers a week of pop-ups onto its Matsuyama jewellery counter
A gemstone marché, a pop-up shop and a trunk show run back to back at Iyotetsu Takashimaya — three ways to keep one small counter feeling new.
The Thousand Kyoto turns its grand staircase into a nagashi-somen run for a one-day summer festival
A flowing-noodle display down the hotel's staircase anchors a one-day festival built around local honey and produce.
Isetan Shinjuku's Creators floors back two young labels this month, one built on a carbon-capture textile, one on made-in-Japan tailoring
Isetan Shinjuku is running two AW26 pop-ups from young Japanese labels this month: doublet's Re-Style shop built around a garment made partly from a material developed from CO2-consuming microorganisms, and vowels' Men's Creators pop-up built on an all-domestic-manufacture collection — a reminder of what actually earns space on the store's design floors.