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The Sabi Journal

Everything we're reading, writing, and obsessing over — plus the histories behind what we sell.

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Guides, explainers, and deep dives — Japanese denim, brands, and how to buy well.

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Image: The Pokémon Company

How Pokémon's 30th Anniversary Reprints Sent Everyone Back to the Originals

Pokémon's 30th Celebration reprinted Base Set Charizard and more. Here's how the reprints...
Image: Tetsuya Fujimaki for ASICS

ASICS GEL-NYC and GEL-KAYANO 20: Two Archive Runners, Explained

The GEL-NYC and the GEL-KAYANO 20 both bring ASICS running designs from the archive into everyday...
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New Balance 1906 Explained: The 1906R, the GORE-TEX Version and the 1906L Loafer

The New Balance 1906 began as a 2009 running shoe and is now a family that includes a GORE-TEX ve...
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Are Sambas Soccer Shoes? A Short History of the adidas Samba

The adidas Samba started in 1950 as a football shoe for icy pitches, and this is how it became th...
Gifts for Filmmakers That Aren't More Gear

Gifts for Filmmakers That Aren't More Gear

Books that show how great directors plan their films, and good storage for the small things that ...
The Best Fashion Coffee Table Books for Streetwear Fans

The Best Fashion Coffee Table Books for Streetwear Fans

Five fashion books that hold a table on their own, and together tell the story of streetwear from...

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Brand History

Deep dives into the brands we carry — heritage, craft, and where to start.

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visvim Skagway Lo sneakers in ivory, pair stacked, side profile

visvim and Hiroki Nakamura: A Brand History, From Moccasins to the Skagway

Hiroki Nakamura built visvim around vintage silhouettes, natural materials and products meant to ...
Brain Dead: Clothing for a Curious Life (Rizzoli, 2022)

Brain Dead: The LA Label Built on Zines, Punk, and Horror Films

How a cold email between two designers became Brain Dead, the Los Angeles label with its own cine...
Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment #3 (Rizzoli, 2025)

Hiroshi Fujiwara and fragment design: The Godfather of Streetwear, Explained

Who Hiroshi Fujiwara is, how fragment design works, and how a DJ from Ise shaped four decades of ...
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What Is Arc'teryx Veilance? The City Line, Explained

Veilance is Arc'teryx's minimalist city line, launched in 2009 and made near Vancouver. W...
Sunflower Stable Shirt in brown pinstripe — Copenhagen menswear tailoring

Sunflower: The Copenhagen Label Making Tailoring Wearable Again

The story of Sunflower — the Copenhagen menswear label turning pragmatic tailoring and quality fa...
Kapital Kountry boro patchwork shorts in indigo — layered, hand-stitched Japanese denim

What Is Boro? The Japanese Art of Mended Cloth

Boro is the Japanese tradition of patching and layering indigo cloth into something stronger than...

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Live from Sabi

Field notes, drops, and dispatches from the shop — written by us.

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Some garments are designed to outlive the people who wear them.

Some garments are designed to outlive the people who wear them.

Live from Sabi · No. 02: Garments 05.13.2026 Some garments are designed to outlive the people wh...
The Sashiko Gals of Ōtsuchi

The Sashiko Gals of Ōtsuchi

Live From Sabi · No. 01 In 2011, the sea took half of Ōtsuchi. The earthquake came first, then th...

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