We’re excited to be carrying a selection of rare and vintage Japanese menswear books and magazines from the private library of Author W. David Marx.

Toshiyuki Kurosu - Ivy Pictorial Dictionary (1983)

Toshiyuki Kurosu came to fame in the 1960s as Japan’s first expert on Ivy League style. He was not just a writer for_Men’s Club_but a key member of the team at brand VAN Jacket who brought Ivy style to Japan. In the early 1980s, he created this guidebook to a basic Ivy wardrobe with illustrator Ichiro Iwasawa. This book is difficult to find in Japan.