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Published on November 22, 2024

Style Guide: Kapital and Latre x Viapiana

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The image shows a person standing in front of a mirror, wearing a loose shirt t-shirt with red raglan sleeves. They're wearing dark indigo Japanese selvage denim. The background features a well-lit room with wooden flooring and a table with a checkered tablecloth.

I wish Kapital’s pant and dress sizing was friendlier to me. It’s a brand I absolutely love, but like a lot of Japanese brands, I don’t have the body to enjoy it all. Shopping Japanese fashion brands is humbling as I learned. They’re built different over there and sizing can be tiny for Westerners. 








Top: Kapital
Pants: Latre x Viapiana
Earrings: Corey Moranis
Shoes: Acne Studios


The image shows a person standing in front of a mirror, wearing a loose shirt t-shirt with red raglan sleeves. They're wearing dark indigo Japanese selvage denim. The background features a well-lit room with wooden flooring and a table with a checkered tablecloth.










The image shows a person standing in front of a mirror, wearing a loose shirt t-shirt with red raglan sleeves. They're wearing dark indigo Japanese selvage denim. The background features a well-lit room with wooden flooring and a table with a checkered tablecloth.


Sizing can be wonky, but the retail experience in Japan is absolutely bonkers. You’ll find something to love easily! And if not, just wandering the shops is pretty amazing.





I bought this Jersey Bandana Huge T from Blue Button Shop in Toronto. I knew I could fit in this! 














Latre is one of the best shops in the city. Like Kapital, everything they do is so bloody cool. Dripping with cool. 





These Japanese salvage denim trousers are connected to my story about not fitting into Japanese brands. I was on the hunt for a pair of Kapital jeans from Blue Button Shop. 


The image shows a person standing in front of a mirror, wearing a loose shirt t-shirt with red raglan sleeves. They're wearing dark indigo Japanese selvage denim. The background features a well-lit room with wooden flooring and a table with a checkered tablecloth.










Unfortunately, Blue Button Shop was out of stock for some styles and the others didn’t fit. So when that journey was a bust, I remembered Latre’s Instagram post about the collaboration with Toronto-based denim brand Viapiana and how cool they looked. Thankfully, the unisex design made fitting easy.