kazuki666 said:
soso, the bag mosmos-san just bought in his pic is a Tanker 3way bag?
Which is also the bag in this pic? (the item on the right side)
http://www.kurachika.jp/message/takuya.html
Ok I clarify one by one slowly with u. Firstly, what mosmos had purchased is the Porter Tanker 3-way bag. Headporter also has their own series of Tanker 3-series, as originally stated in one of his posts, full catalog can be found on headporter.org. Difference btw both Porter Tokyo and Headporter? It's quite a dazzling history to write on, but to make it short Headporter is a company started in 1998 with only 2 outlets one in Harujuku another in New York, is founded and spearheaded by musician/designer
Hiroshi Fujiwara , who also designs his own in-house labels like hTm and GoodEnough.
As for Porter Tokyo by Yoshidakaban, it's founded since 1935, which has a longer history than Headporter, but it wasn't until 1983 when the Tanker series was launched and designed by Katsuyuki Yoshida (3rd son of the founder), and subsequently a yr after in 1984, when their Luggage Label was released, then they started to garner in popularity. More info can be found
here. (I'm sorry its in japanese wiki, but that's the only decent article I can find that covers the company history and its label series, scroll down for its full product series covered by Porter Tokyo/HP)
kazuki666 said:
And lets say i want to buy that Porter Helmet series, would there be anything like its Tokyo Porter, Headporter or what? Coz i rem u all said before there are "three different labels" for porter itself.
Or each label will have its own release, and wont overlap in their items?
(Anyone going to buy from rakuten soon? Can i tag along? I dun understand japanese websites lor...
)
All u need to know is, Porter Tokyo has its own in-house designers (with Katsuyuki Yoshida as the son and main designer for the Yoshidakaban company), while Headporter is solely started and its products designed by Hiroshi Fujiwara. Porter Tokyo also has more of its outlets spread throughout Japan, but Headporter only has a single outlet located in Harajuku. But it's worthnotey to note that Headporter is part of a division of Yoshidakaban now and since then Hiroshi Fujiwara has been doing designs for Yoshida Porter Tokyo too, thus u can see the crossover designs in terms of the Tanker series started by Yoshidakaban originally.
Porter International is just another label started by its Taiwan distributor, with authorisation by Yoshidakaban itself, thus the borrowed name of "Porter". More info:
http://www.ll-porter.com/home.htm
As for Rakuten, I will fill u in if I know of anyone conducting MO or something in this thread. Seriously if u dunno japanese, I think with the help of VpostJapan it would usually solve ur problem. Or next time if I'm ordering my next bag I will let u know agn.