Now & Then The RVCA World Tour Hits Tokyo

The Shibuya neighborhood in central Tokyo is a hive of constant quiet buzz.

While a city of 30 million-plus people, it’s kind of marvelous to consider how the city possesses a crowded serenity, where even in the most cramped train cars, there is a sort of aspiration for order and peace. In perhaps the most humid weeks of the year in Japan, the stifling heat bestows an even more subdued feeling over the city, but tonight, outside of the RVCA flagship store, something is beginning to take shape. MMA legend BJ Penn is about to start his signing, and a line forms. Across the street, Aaron Rose puts the finishing touches on Beautiful Losers: Now & Then, a not-so-retrospective of the legendary and highly

influential museum show and movement started in the US during the 1990s underground scene. A car crammed with professional skaters and surfers pulls up to the store in an exotic connection of surf, skate, MMA, and art.