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Paulo Calle was deep in Tokyo’s scene before you knew how just how cool it was. The LA-based designer and photographer behind Rare Panther, and longtime collaborator of Verdy’s for Girls Don’t Cry and Wasted Youth, returns to where it all started with his first photo book, Calle Tokyo. Shot in 2015, the series captures a Tokyo that still feels close but already belongs to another era. The photos move through parties, streets, studios, and small moments with friends — Verdy, Takashi Murakami, Kiko Mizuhara — all part of a creative world that was just beginning to define itself. The image are nostalgia instilling,  like you’re standing in the room or walking those streets yourself. Calle Tokyo is an iconic depiction of what made that time so electric — and how much of that iconicism still runs through the city today.