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#tapes

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Fashion

Apr 18, 20181 min read

Gucci adds some coolness to cassette tapes

Luxury Italian fashion brand Gucci is helping make cassette tapes cool again in a collaborative collection with the Waltz shop in Tokyo’s Nakameguro district. Special Waltz-inspired patches are featured on six products, including a Boston bag, shoulder bag…

Living

Sep 28, 20175 min read

Cassette tapes make comeback in Seoul

For fans of rock and heavy metal music, a visit to Dope Records, an independent record store run by Kim Yun-jung in Mapo, western Seoul, evokes a strange feeling. The dim-lit basement shop feels as if time has rewound back to the mid-90s — almost three…