Weekends are a good time to go out shopping and over the past weekend we popped by Tangs (Orchard) here in Singapore to check out if they have any new tokidoki apparel in store. We weren’t to be disappointed because they do have the tokidoki Nautical series already (yes we’re really behind time here in Asia!).

I fell in love with this grey terry cloth halter featuring a really cute tokidoki pirate monkey! With a big tokidoki pirate star on the back too! Awwww…

This would be perfect for those outings at the beach where you lounge about in your bikini, do a bit of a swim with no need for a towel coz your tokidoki top is already made of it! The material is quite soft and not scratchy at all to wear.

Besides the material, the top is also embellished with a few tokidoki details. In front you have a tokidoki pirate monkey holding onto a yellow rope and making heart patterns along it. Along the back of the top, there’s a bigggg tokidoki word made out from the rope as well as a sparkling tokidoki pirate star stitched on as well (like a patch).

Can’t resist taking more photos of the tokidoki monkey!

Tempted? Well, if you want to get this gorgeous top, it will set you back SG$105! (*sobs*) Tangs Orchard also have 10-30% off a couple of past tokidoki apparel so you might want to check them out at the Playlab corner on Level 3.

As part of the Yahoo! “Start Wearing Purple” campaign, tokidoki has launched a limited edition purple apparel line sold exclusively at Start Wearing Purple. According to the Yahoo! rep who kindly sent us this piece of exciting news, the site is dedicated to a grassroots campaign that encourages people to embrace the color and spirit of purple.

Check out two of the tees in the range (we totally dig the tokidoki SANDY in purple tee!), as well as a gorgeous shot of Simone Legno sporting a purple cap and purple Adios star tee which I’d love to get my hands on!

The tees cost US$30 but at the moment it seems to be only available in the US - we tried to buy one but we only saw US states listed in the drop-down menu. (However don’t fret coz we’ll update you once we have news that it will be shipped internationally as well!)

Together with the site, there’s also a series of videos of Simone Legno, one of which is this mini-documentary (you can catch a glimpse of the tokidoki office!):

An Interview with Creative Visionary, Simone Legno @ Yahoo! Video

You might want to watch the other videos as well. There are alot of tokidoki visual goodies featured in the videos so it’s quite enjoyable!

(Photos and video courtesy of Yahoo!)

We’re excited to see tokidoki’s Fall/Winter 2008 collection trickling into various parts of the world! We’ve seen sneak peeks from Chicki of a couple of new jackets coming in, and now Crim Shop in Italy has kindly let us know that the new arrivals are already in their store and they’re quite gorgeous!

I am totally drooling over this beautiful tokidoki Jacket! Classy and definitely suitable to wear on any cold winter’s night (or when you’re on a back of a motorcycle!). Details of the jacket comes in the form of the tokidoki logo on the zipper pull and you can always fold up the collar to cover your neck - nifty for protecting yourself from the wind! Crim Shop also has other new tokidoki apparel for men and women as well as accessories like bracelets and necklaces.

Whilst looking at the new arrivals, we decided to take a visit to tokidoki’s Europe store and they have already updated it with the Fall/Winter collection (yes, we know we can’t shop from that store but ‘window’ shopping is always fun as well~!) Just check out the new tokidoki jeans, tees and jackets! tokidoki did not leave out the guys in their latest collection coz we spotted this really irresistable tokidoki Jacket for the guys:

Military-inspired with roomy pockets all over the front, this tokidoki Jacket looks simple and understated on the outside, but check out the funky interior! You can also find embroidered patches (smiley bullets on the top right pocket, tokidoki logo on the left) that adds on to the military feel of the design. Definitely suitable for daily wear - I would if I could fit into it!

Yesterday we mentioned the Chicki sale to clear some space for the new tokidoki items that will be coming into their store this September/October. Vicky has provided us with some sneak peeks - tokidoki Stationery and a couple of interesting tokidoki Jackets - and we’re pleased to be able to share them with you. So before you go off shopping this weekend, here are the goodies you can be expecting really soon!

First up the tokidoki Stationery - according to Vicky, there will be a NEW RANGE coming up in September. These are made by the same people who did the gorgeous Italian tokidoki Diary/Journal. The upcoming items will include notebooks, folders, journals, pencils, pens, erasers and of course pencil sharpeners!

If the Italian tokidoki Diary is anything to go by - you can be sure to expect loads of gorgeous, intricate details for the new range. Yummy! We’ll definitely update you once we got more information (and hopefully pictures!) of the new stationery. Here are the photos of the current range - always good to share!

(tokidoki Notebooks featuring Bastardino, Latte and Mozzarella!)

(tokidoki Notebooks with the iconic Japanese girls)

We think the idea of seeing Bastardino and Polpettina plus the other tokidoki characters on top of a pencil is just so cute! It’ll make me happy to be writing with these pencils for sure! Even the stands they’ll be sold on looks yummy as well… Check out the tokidoki Pencil Sharpeners! LOL I want the Adios Bomb version to grace my table!

(You might feel a bit weird sticking a pencil into Mozzarella’s head…)

(The erasers are so sweet! Love the one featuring Mozzarella!)

Apparel-wise, Chicki will also have the upcoming Autumn/Winter collection - which includes jumpers, tees and these tokidoki Jackets - sometime in October. We are not able to show you what the entire jacket looks like, but here are two swatches you can expect from the range:

(Bright, loud and extremely colourful!)

(A familiar favourite! tokidoki Tutti Print)

Hope you’ve enjoyed all these tokidoki visual goodness - us Tokidokizens sure did! Have a good weekend - Buona fine settimana!

Fellow Tokidokizen Aglaé Caroline (from Brazil) wanted to find out where she can get tokidoki apparel in Italy a few weeks back and so we went on the hunt for some stores that she could get stuff from. Some of the sites that we found were predominately in Italian, but luckily my six-month old Italian came into good use.

If you happen to be in Torino, do drop by Crim Shop Gusto Grafico where you can find tokidoki items. Besides the retail store, they also have an online webstore (which is all in Italian) where you can also do your shopping from. The site is bright and cheery but things can be a bit difficult to find if you are not too sure what the links are at the side. Just click on ‘Prodotti’ and start clicking away to do your shopping!

They do shipping all over the world, so don’t worry if you’re Asia or anywhere else. Crim Shop will have new items coming in September and we’ll keep you updated on what’s the latest from this store. If you would like to get more information, do let us know and we’ll write to them to find out!