Check out McG’s video of Kirsten Dunst in full on sailor moon cosplay, produced by Takashi Murakami, the Superflat artist and Vuitton visionaire. I most enjoyed the wtf faces of the tokyo street kids. Takashi Murakami did great with product placement; I see his blossom flowers everywhere. But poor Kiki looked much better dancing in Bring It On.

The Washington DC Textile Museum is showing a Contemporary Japanese Fashion exhibit. To kick it off, they teamed up with T-MODE, the organizers of anime and gamer convetions. The result was haute couture combined with cosplay, which results in a harajuku fashion show. It’s interesting to see the influences of design greats such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto get filtered down to the likes of Angelic Pretty and MA/MAM. But the inspiration goes both ways, and its undeniable that runways have long been borrowing from street style. Check out the pretty kitty cat walk, but watch out like all goth lolita fash, its got claws!

Set to be discontinued by the end of the year, a ride on the Hello Kitty Airbus 330 is too cute to miss. Currently being used on short routes in Taiwan, EVA has Hello Kitty themed everything, while most airlines start and start with a plane wrap:


You know how cute japanese cakes are…kittify them and lo! A meal almost too cute to eat (even hello Kitty cucumber — do our eyes lie?):


They already took one of two Hello Kitty planes out of service, and the last one will likely go at the end of this year. So don’t wait too long. But even if you had to do some waiting around to board that flight, it wouldn’t be interminable in this adorbz room:

Life magazine ponders 30 dumb inventions from its archives, and maybe not surprisingly robots appear in quite a few of them. The first credo of technocuddly is useful! These robots didn’t make life better. This quick-draw shooting robot actually made life kind of scary.

The phone-answering robot could actually be kind of useful if you’re just running in the door or out of the shower. But its clicks and whirls could be construed to be heavy breathing, and its child-toucher eyes all add up to somthing you don’t want in your home.

But we can’t knock the cat robot, whose only problem was marketing. When the Cat Mew becomes the Meow Machine and Shamwow Vince does the commercial, we expect our cut in the mail. Or our cat in the mail!

Designer Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham of United Bamboo made cat clothes based on their latest ready to wear designs (for people) and photographed them in a calendar.

The bizarre and cute photos are part of a long history of animals in people’s clothes, which probably started as early was the technology of capturing images. Muybridge took photos of that famous horse — if only it wore a tutu! William Wegman explored fashion with this dogs, dressed them in Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen and Issey Miyake and published a book.