Eclectic Tokyo label Diet Butcher Slim Skin presents yet another high top sneaker for Spring/Summer 2012. Retaining the brand’s chunky 1980s stylings, the style combines a clean white coarse grain premium leather with beige and black contrasts. With a high padded ankle and inner zip for easy wear, it sits sturdily atop a durable hard-wearing rubber sole. A thick ankle strap holds the shoe, characteristically completed by metal eyelets and star-studded details. These Japanese-made sneakers are available at oki-ni for £430 GBP (approximately $680 USD).

Tokyo’s Diet Butcher Slim Skin is a modern Japanese fashion label founded by Hisashi Fukatami which combines true punk sensitivities with a classic, more sophisticated appeal. The Spring/Summer 2012 Low Top Sneaker is presented here in a rich black and royal purple combination, retaining the brand’s chunky retro styling. Featuring grained premium leather, padded tongues and ankles, hard-wearing rubber soles, contrast midsoles, and thick black laces, these sneakers are made in Japan and now available at oki-ni for £305 GBP (or approximately $490 USD).

Debuted at the recent Singapore Men’s Fashion Week, Japanese contemporary label, Diet Butcher Slim Skin, introduces its Fall/Winter 2012 collection. Making use of a heavy emphasis on knits and wools, the menswear range features a comprehensive assortment of sweaters, blazers, overcoats, cardigans, shirts as well as the label’s footwear program. The unorthodox designs and unconventional prints that the label is known for shine through maintaining a degree of consistency, while continuing to push traditional boundaries.

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Despite a dedicated following outside of its native Japan, Diet Butcher Slim Skin has often kept a low global profile. The brand whose roots lie in the progression and innovation of fashion design, DBSS aims to integrate the intangible aspect of jazz music into this latest collection. Despite the sunny days ahead, a darker tone dominates the collection with unique material selections and patterns.

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Drifting in and out of the consciousness high avant-garde sneakers, Diet Butcher Slim Skin’s High Top drops in a new horsehair version. The bulky snowboard boot-esque design is understated in its details with minimal contrasting aside from the white midsole. In a time when sneakers often take a more streamline approach, DBSS continues to buck the trend. Available now at oki-ni.

This season Tokyo’s Diet Butcher Slim Skin have added a zip to the back of their high top, allowing them to give it a more traditional boot shape and a taller silhouette. The sneaker still retains the chunky streetwear styling, although it is presented in a clean black and white colorway. The boot is made from a soft premium leather and has the lyric/slogan “walk this way” printed on the sole below the Diet Butcher logo. Priced at $753 USD, these are now available to purchase via oki-ni.

The defining footwear silhouette for Japanese avant-garde brand Diet Butcher Slim Skin reemerges in its most adventurous example to date. Embodying a bulky profile not unlike that of a snowboard boot, the upper features a zebra print pattern with a contrasting gray and red sole. Available now at ZOZOVIANT.

Oki-ni takes stock of several new colorways in the Slim Skin Retro ’08 high top sneaker from Tokyo-based Diet Butcher Slim Skin. A heavy duty sneaker in a premium goat suede upper, the shoes have been aged through a unique “destroying” process, featuring a single zip fastening on the ankle and quilted detail around both the heel and ankle. A label known for its punk-influenced aesthetic, the boots come fasten with wide laces and a contrast grey vulcanized sole. Available now here.

Japanese label’s Diet Butcher Slim Skin’s cult high-top sneaker offering reappears this season. Coming in four different colorways, the chunky sneaker meets boot profile features a goat leather upper. Previous iterations were based on deer leathers but the use of a new material affords greater durability. On the media side is a zipper for easy removal. Available as of December at GLAICE.

Japanese contemporary label Diet Butcher Slim Skin take a refreshing minimal approach on their products, with this messenger bag. The bag is made from cow hide, with a raw leather underside to complement. Details include a rain flap with an open-angled front patch pocket and a convenient large main compartment. As well as the one picture, a “distressed” version is also now available through Blackbird.