Lucire’s coverage of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo is online today in the main part of the website. Not content with bringing back the event after a cancellation earlier in 2011 due to the earthquake and tsunami, peripheral events, including an international edition of Fashion’s Night Out with all 17 Vogue editors, made sure that the event made big headlines.
   In addition, the Japan Fashion Week Organization will run Tokyo Fashion Week in Italy at the Pitti Immagine Uomo exhibition from January 10. This exhibition is for menswear. This is a business-to-business event, not open to the public.
   Japanese designers continue to make a splash globally. Featured designers from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo will collaborate and showcase as Leather Japan 2012 at New York Fashion Week. The presentation event will be held on February 13; an exhibition will follow at the Nexus showroom in New York from February 14 to 16.
   It’s official: Giuseppe Mascoli’s new London burger joint, the Bukowski Grill, is receiving guests. Well worth an expedition to Shoreditch, a quarter of the city not often seen by tourists. These burger concoctions offer a reasonable alternative to the snobby high-end fare at downtown eateries, and the people-watching can’t be beat.
   We’ve also seen in 2012 with our review of the BMW X5, part one of our Vancouver Fashion Week coverage, and new original photographs and layout for our earlier Mini Cooper D road test.—Yuka Murai, and Stanley Moss, Travel Editor