Last night Momoko and I went for some sushi to celebrate our last evening in Tokyo. We went to Naka-Meguro in a small riverside place where we sat at the bar and the clientele smoked a lot. There were a dozen or so of the fishy little bricks on a wooden block in front of us and we were working our way through them with a couple of beers.

Gradually, my attention was taken by a new dish that was being prepared in front of us. The chef had got a live fish and cut the fillets off it. Then he skewered it and sat it upon a pile of grated radish and arranged the cut up pieces of its own fillets around it. There was a nice little pile of ginger on the side. It looked spectacular, but the poor fish was still gasping for life after 5 minutes of preparation.

Momoko's reaction was "wow - that is truly fresh fish",  whereas mine was to dissolve into tears and not be able to finish my sushi. I was too upset to take a picture,  so here's a drawing of the last moments of poor Mr. Fish.

What a pleasure is that? Here's their story

Purely for fun this one - my special friend in NZ found this picture in a bin (think they call it a dumpster) and sent it in to a site called FOUND

There are some funny entries that other people have picked up too.

so how comes this wasn't in the Guardian - lots of stuff about the fashion shows in Paris etc - good fun, but surely this deserves a mention too?

Yohji is Rescued - 3 days later hooray

Michelle and I are in Paris, selling our Spring Summer 2010 collection. We are in a showroom lent to us by Serge of Boutique Homme, in the Marais.

We are staying in a beautiful garret on the 6th floor with fantastic views.

there is also a cute puppy here, called Earl.

This fun suit is from kigu, I think these warm ones are pretty neat for getting a bit dormant in over the winter.

here is the film that Mike Chan made for our exhibition at the Wapping Project.

This is nice, and I'm learning to embed stuff.

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

Here are Zoe and David at Tent in Spitalfields for the LDF. Proud owners of their new toy, which it sounds as though is going to be a huge success in the quality toys department - appealing to kids and parents, as good as old.

proud parents

on the shelf

And here is a lovely film they made for their previous shapemaker toy.

Rupert who made the set for our studio/shop in Wapping has got an exhibition on at Elemental in Spitalfields. I went to have a look today, some lovely pieces, including a kind of a bachelor's cabinet downstairs that I loved. Here's another from his website