Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
by biophysboy on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:10AM
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Its just a stiff translation of a marketing term. If you look up 一枚の布, you'll see a bunch of Miyake's clothes, where the whole gimmick is that they have no seams. A better translation probably would have been "inspired by the concept of seamless design"
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
by bobbiechen on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:34AM
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That makes much more sense, even "a seamless piece of cloth" would have been much less ridiculous.
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
by biophysboy on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @11:58AM
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A more literal one-to-one translation would be "one sheet of cloth", which also would have been better.
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
by hlpn on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:13PM
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That makes much more sense. Thank you.
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
by silversmith on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @08:31AM
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Wait, it really does say that in the article. Wow.
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
by wredcoll on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:09AM
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Thats the point where I started double checking for april fools
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone
by rgovostes on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @06:04PM
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Emphasizing a central concept/theme is common with Japanese brands, restaurants, events, etc. The translation is often slightly peculiar.
For example the Osaka Expo theme is "Designing Future Society for Our Lives". Or the retail store f.k.a. Tokyu Hands says, "Our concept is 'Create your own life in your own way with what is available within reach.'"
Ugh