Droptokyo Breaks 700,000 International Followers After First Year Since Overseas Expansion

01.March.2020 | FASHION / SPOT

Since February 2019, media brand Droptokyo has rolled out across 11 countries, regions and cities, including Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Bangkok, Vietnam, Tokyo, and Kansai. The street fashion culture community brand has now amassed over 700k followers across their global Instagram pages.

Kazuma Iwano, Chief Editor at Droptokyo, said: “In our ten years to date, we have built 300,000 followers. Expanding overseas has more than doubled that, and we’ve shot to 700,000 in just one year. It made me realise that our street snap content is not just recognised by people in Japan, but around the world too. Please check out Droptokyo, which aims to become the world’s biggest platform for street fashion.” *Translated from Japanese

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