It’s no surprise that Our Legacy‘s edgy, indie rock-inspired silhouettes resonate well with the cool crowd in the Land of the Rising Sun. Following a pop-up store at Isetan Shinjuku department store earlier this year, the Stockholm-based cult fashion brand has inaugurated a standalone boutique in Tokyo. The store occupies a unit on the first floor of a former, late 1960s residential building in Daikanyama, a fashionable yet more discreet shopping area situated just south of the better-known shopping grounds of Shibuya. The interior design, a collaboration between Our Legacy creative director Christopher Nying and Swedish architecture practice Profan, sought to largely retain the building’s Brutalist elements, but is also infused with a string of both Swedish elements, custom designs and artworks, resulting in eclectic shopping grounds and an adventurous shopping experience. Having previously been an apartment, Our Legacy‘s retail space comprises a series of rooms. A homey backdrop and atmosphere have been created, albeit in tweaked form by intentionally exposed ducts, pipes, cords and vents, and all paired with stone, concrete and timber flooring.
The sequence of rooms is eclectically furnished, featuring carefully sourced Scandinavian furniture pieces, utilitarian folk objects from the 17th and 18th centuries, Swedish and Norwegian folk costumes reworked with patches, pins, studs, and fabrics, elements of the 1970s and 1980s punk movement, vintage leather jackets sourced from Stockholm-based vintage leather store 118 Second Läder, and early Swedish punk fanzines. Adding to the evocative vibe of the Our Legacy store is Third Person, a kinetic installation by Swedish-American artist Tobias Bradford in one of the fitting rooms, while a wall-mounted work of his is also on display in the store. In another fitting room, shoppers find themselves in a wondrous bathroom setting brimming with vintage perfume bottles. So, what’s on the shelves at the Our Legacy new outpost? An extensive selection of items of both men’s and women’s apparel, accessories and shoes. Additionally, the store comes with an area dedicated to Our Legacy Work Shop, the brand’s circular design platform which uses deadstock fabrics to create brand new garments. © superfuture
Our Legacy
11-21 Sarugaku-cho, First Floor (Daikanyama)
Tokyo 150-0033
Telephone +81 3 68228505
Daily 11am-7pm
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