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𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝑰𝑵 𝑭𝑶𝑪𝑼𝑺 Ether, Isolation, and the Brutality of Becoming. All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), directed by Shunji Iwai (岩井 俊二), is a film that plunges into the emotional and psychological terrain of adolescence with a narrative that fractures and loops, much like memory itself with a stylistic choice that mirrors the way young people experience time and trauma. At the center of the film’s world is Lily Chou-Chou, a fictional pop singer whose ethereal music becomes a refuge for a group of young teenagers navigating isolation, bullying, and identity crisis. Her songs act as a kind of spiritual anchor the characters call “the Ether,” an almost mystical space where they feel connected, understood, and free from the bleakness of their everyday lives. Lily Chou-Chou uses the Ether to explore how alienated youth build communities online. In the film, internet forums and anonymous identities let these teens show facets of themselves they can’t in person, but the cruelty and confusion of growing up are not glossed over. Violence, bullying, and betrayal permeate the classmates’ lives, as vivid evidence of a generation grasping for meaning in a world that often feels indifferent and harsh. Visually and emotionally, All About Lily Chou-Chou positions youth as a lived landscape filled with contradictions: hope and despair, connection and isolation, music as salvation but also as escape. Deciding to capture the experience of growing up, as a tangled, often painful currents that define it. 💡 This content is for educational purposes

Blue like stadium lights, sharp against the night. A jersey that moves like motion, with layering that catches every second. スタジアムライトのように青く、夜に鋭く映える。 動きそのもののように流れる一着、重なりが一瞬ごとの光を捉える。 AMBUSH®︎ SS26 LOOK 19: FOOTBALL JERSEY TOP AMB 34 CHARM NECKLACE CURSIVE A BELT BAGGY DENIM PANTS FACELESS WATCH BRACELET Now available at our WORKSHOPS

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Rimless minimal lenses, paired with barbell charm piercings and crystal hearts. Catch the eye from every angle. 縁のないミニマルなレンズに、バーベルピアスチャームとクリスタルハートをピアス。 どの角度からも視線を引き寄せて。

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Soft like dusk, drifting between light and shadow. Wrapped in lines that turn the moment into something you can almost hold. 黄昏のように柔らかく、光と影のあいだを漂う。 その瞬間を、触れられそうなかたちへと変えるラインに包まれて。 AMBUSH®︎ SS26 LOOK 18: LEOPARD FUR HAT WOMENS LEATHER BOMBER JACKET CROPPED SOCCER S/S KNIT KNIT MINI SHORTS OVAL CUT STONE NECKLACE

𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝑭𝑰𝑬𝑳𝑫 𝑺𝑻𝑼𝑫𝒀 There’s something oddly intimate about how the future used to look. Pulled from the deep archive of 50watts.com, these Curation of images drift through Japan’s 70s and 80s idea of the future. Scanned from an almost endless stash of books and catalogs, they capture a moment where thinking about space was a creative exercise about stretching imagination to the limits. Filled with Chrome dreams, soft utopias, and analog visions of infinity all pressed onto paper, still humming decades later. 1.- Peter Sato, calendar, 1980
 2.- Takashi Yamazaki cyber cycle 1985
 3.- Shusei Nagaoka
 4.- Naoki Yasuda, ca. 80s 
5.- Sadao Naito, late 70s 
6.- Kenkichi Sato, ca. 1979 
7.- Tadanori Yokoo magazine cover, 1970 
8.- Sumio Tsunoda, book jacket, early 80s 
9.- Shigeo Okamoto, calendar, ca. 1981 
10.- Hideo Yamashita, early 70s 
11”.-Blood maintaining life by conveying various substances," illustration by Kazuho Itoh for "Newton," 80s 
12.- Kazuo Haba, early 70s
 13.- Tadanori Yokoo, early 70s
 14.- Sadao Sato, 1983, original work
 15.- Hisashi Saito, 1983, catalog illustration 

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Blue like the sea, live in the spirit of the ocean. With stripes that break the scenery into a painting. 海のように青く、その精神をまとう。 風景を絵画のように切り取るストライプとともに。 AMBUSH®︎ SS26 LOOK 18: SOCCER S/S KNIT CURSIVE A BELT BAGGY DENIM PANTS FACELESS WATCH BRACELET SQUARE CUT STONE BRACELET

𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑳𝑫 Funk often travels as pure sensation. Fast, loud, immediate. Easy to consume, easy to move to. But that version flattens something far more complex. Before it became exportable, funk was built inside Rio’s favelas as structure, as movement, as a way of understanding the city. The baile is not just a party, it’s a system. A space where sound, body, and territory collide, where celebration exists alongside violence, and where culture is produced in real time. Taísa Machado (@chefonamermo ) speaks from within that reality. As a dancer, researcher, and founder of Afrofunk Rio, her work frames funk as a form of knowledge, one that carries histories of race, gender, ancestry, and survival through the body itself. This conversation moves past the surface. Into the tension, the rhythm, and everything that refuses to be simplified. 💡This content is for educational purposes. Photography by Felipe Combo & Thaís Abreu

Wear the all-over graphic and draw the eye. On a relaxed silhouette, carry a subtle presence. 全面に広がるグラフィックを纏って、視線を引き寄せる。 力を抜いたシルエットに、さりげない存在感を乗せて。 AMBUSH®︎ SS26 LOOK 28: ALLOVER PRINT S/S SHIRT MESH TANK TOP 3D WOOL PANTS FACELESS WATCH BRACELET LEATHER LOAFER SLIDER

PLAYLIST 55 - A Baile Funk playlist curated by @chefonamermo for our Spring Summer 2026 Collection. Now up on our official AMBUSH®︎ Spotify page. 📡 AMBUSH_OFFICIAL 📶 https://bit.ly/4e323A9

𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝑨𝑹𝑻 & 𝑫𝑬𝑺𝑰𝑮𝑵 𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑶𝑹𝒀 How Takashi Yasumura Transformed the Ordinary in Domestic Scandals. Domestic Scandals (日常らしさ) is a photographic series and photo book by Japanese artist Takashi Yasumura (安村崇) that turns the everyday into something uncanny, complex, and quietly strange. Over the course of seven years, Yasumura photographed scenes and objects in his parents’ middle-class home and its interior surroundings, using a large-format 4×5 camera to capture banal objects. Despite the title, the “scandals” here aren’t literal revelations about family secrets, they are the hidden tensions within what we normally take for granted. By isolating familiar objects and scenes and placing them against their everyday backdrops with vivid color and sharp detail, Yasumura subtly disrupts our assumptions about domesticity, tradition, and the geometry of ordinary life. The work earned Yasumura the Grand Prize at the 8th Canon New Cosmos of Photography in 1999 and later showed internationally, including his first solo U.S. exhibition in 2007 at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, where the images’ saturated color and subtle ironic tensions drew attention to the shifting landscape of Japanese domestic culture at the turn of the century. 💡 This content is for educational purposes.