Haruna Kojima to Open “22;Market” Pop-Up Shops Around Japan

Haruna Kojima is primed to become the next top model as she looks to make her impact on the fashion scene.

Fashion maven Haruna Kojima is ready to set the fashion world on fire with her latest pop-up shops opening at a handful of locations around Japan next month. The shop, named 22;market, is hitting the major markets in Osaka, Tokyo, and Aichi beginning February 6th. The shop will showcase items made in collaboration with top artists including Daichi Miura and NO PANTIES on top of their original merchandise. Haruna Kojima shares “It’s a small store but it’ll be packed with tons of limited collaborative items, original goods, and all of my favorite things. I want tons of people to feel free to visit the store, whether you’re a guy or a girl. I am also trying to think of fun campaigns to run in the meanwhile.”

[22;market] February 6 ~ 19 : Hankyu Umeda Honten 3F (Osaka)
February 9 ~ 24 : La Foret Harajuku 1F (Tokyo)
February 10 ~ 28 : Nagoya PARCO West 1F (Aichi)

Haruna Kojima [小嶋陽菜] born in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture is a Japanese actress, singer, and a member of idol group AKB48 under Team A. Kojima started her career as a member of Angel Eyes, an idol group under Stardust Promotion. After Angel Eyes disbanded in 2001, she remained in contract with Stardust, but later switched to Ogi Production. Kojima participated in the first AKB48 audition in July 2005, which she passed along with 23 other participants, because the application was just taking a selfie by a mobile phone and e-mail it, and assuming that she “could take 10-time prettier one, and just sent”. Although she voluntarily applied for the audition and passed, she was still looking at then-AKB48 project in a suspicious way, and tried to skip the very first dancing lesson because of her then-part-time job, but eventually participated it in response to the persuasion by Tomonobu Togasaki, Manager of AKB48 Theater.