Take Ivy

EDITOR’S NOTE

Originally published in Japan in 1965, Take Ivy, with photographs by Teruyoshi Hayashida, set off an explosion of American-influenced “Ivy Style” fashion among students in the trendy Ginza shopping district of Tokyo. Capturing the unique academic fashion of the campuses of America’s elite, Ivy League universities, Take Ivy is considered a definitive document of this particular style. For a long time, it was only available in Japanese and hard to find. A small-run reprint came out in Japan in 2006 and sold out almost immediately. In 2010, it was finally published in English and it’s taken me more than a decade to purchase it. But that’s ok, because the style, with its timeless and transcendent appeal, has survived the decades and it always will. It truly is the American style that I love the most and one only has to watch Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor or All the President’s Men to understand why. Nobody has done the preppy look on screen quite like Robert Redford.

Hardcover, 139 pages

Language: English

Photographs by Teruyoshi Hayashida

Text by Shosuke Ishizu, Toshiyuki Kurosu, and Hajime (Paul) Hasegawa

powerHouse Books, 2010