Tag Archives: Rin Tanaka

King of Vintage

By R.A. Schenck | Published: May 13, 2010

Rin Tanaka’s latest book “King of Vintage” documents part of the collection owned by Heller’s Cafe, a local dealer of very old clothing. Over two hundred items are shown, covering everything from sport uniforms to motorcycle jackets.
Get it from InspirationLA.com, Self Edge, or your local Kinokuniya book store.
Update 5/19: Men’s Mentore has [...]

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Spring Inspirations – Motorcycles Et Cetera

By R.A. Schenck | Published: March 21, 2010

Above: Images from Harley-Davidson, Books of Fashions 1910s-1950s by Rin Tanaka.

Above: Images from Men’s File, Issue 2.

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Report from Inspiration LA

By R.A. Schenck | Published: February 19, 2010

Rin Tanaka’s Inspiration meetup took place down in LA last week and Albert Thomas was able do a great writeup and report from the event for Styleforum.net. Hopefully Rin will decide to do this again next year – I will definitely make the trip!
I’ll admit that I felt a bit out of [...]

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Inspiration

By R.A. Schenck | Published: January 24, 2010

Rin Tanaka has put together an amazing event for February:
The kulture recycling & vintage fashion event “Inspiration” will be hosted by Rin Tanaka, the author of the “My Freedamn!” book series. Under the big theme of his life, “vintage fashion,” this event will be held at one of the coolest “event halls” in Los Angeles, [...]

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