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Japan Fashion Week
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Japanese Fashion Week (東京コレクション) is a weeklong fashion industry event where fashion designers showcase their latest styles and outfits that they hope will set the trend for the rest of the year.
Residents often refer to it as the “Tokyo Collection Week” since the event is largely held in Tokyo. It is a biannual event, occurring every March and September.
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History
As early as 1985, Japan has held its own fashion week where designers from across the country came and showcased their latest creations. However, Japan Fashion Week was restructured by the Council of Fashion Designers (CFD) in 2005 as a way to garner more national attention, as they used to have difficulty attracting some of the best names in fashion design.
The result was a tremendous success, as Japan Fashion Week (JFS) is now one of the most well known and influential fashion showcases.
Thus far, there have been six JFS presentations since the restructuring, with a seventh fashion week planned for September of 2008:
- October 31st – November 9th, 2005 at the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery
- March 17th – March 24th, 2006 at the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery
- September 4th – September 8th, 2006 at the Tokyo International Forum] in Yuraku-cho
- March 12th – March 20th, 2007 at the JFW Tent in Nihombashi
- August 29th – September 5th, 2007 at Tokyo Midtown
- March 10th – March 16th, 2008 at Tokyo Midtown
- September 1st – September 7th, 2008 at Tokyo Midtown (Scheduled)
September 2008 Brands and Presentations
Designers can showcase their work in two different arenas. They can showcase their entire collections on the runway, or they can showcase their work at an exhibition.
Brands at Exhibitions
- AGURI SAGIMORI (Designer: Aguri Sagimori)
- AKIRA NAKA (Designer: Akira Naka)
- ENCADREURS (Designer: Ryona Tani)
- GANGLION (Designer: Yuichi Yoshizaki)
- Hidenobu Yasui (Designer: Hidenobu Yasui)
- MIKIO SAKABE (Designer: Mikio Sakabe)
- motonari ono (Designer: Motonari Ono)
- TOKYO RIPPER (Designer: Hideaki Sato)
- writtenafterwards (Designer: Yoshikazu)
Showcased Collections
Monday (September 1st)
- mintdesigns (Designers: Hokuto Katsui and Nao Yagi)
- MIKIO SAKABE (Designer: Mikio Sakabe)
- TAKUMI HATAKEYAMA (Designer: Takumi Hatakeyama)
- mercibeaucoup, (Designer: Eri Utsugi)
- motonari ono (Designer: Motonari Ono)
- RITSUKO SHIRAHAMA (Designer: Ritsuko Shirahama)
- fur fur (Designer: Aya Furuhashi)
Tuesday (September 2nd)
- AKIRA NAKA (Designer: Akira Naka)
- support surface (Designer: Norio Surikabe)
- HISUI (Designer: Hiroko Ito)
- Né-net (Designer: Kazuaki Takashima)
- AGURI SAGIMORI (Designer: Aguri Sagimori)
- KAMISHIMA CHINAMI (Designer: Chinami Kamishima)
- ato (Designer: Ato Matsumoto)
Wednesday (September 3rd)
- everlasting sprout (Designers: Keiichi Muramatsu and Noriko Seki)
- LI LANG (Designer: Ji Wenbo)
- IZREEL (Designer: Kazuhiro Takakura)
- NORIKO FUKUSHIMA (Designer: Noriko Fukushima)
- JUNYA TASHIRO (Designer: Junya Tashiro)
- tiny dinosaur (Designer: Naomi Yamamoto)
- sunaokuwahara (Designer: Sunao Kuwahara)
- zechia (Designers: Lica and Naka)
- BOUTIQUE NICOLE (Designer: Kyoko Higa)
Thursday (September 4th)
- ZIN KATO (Designer: Toru Kato)
- matohu (Designers: Hiroyuki Horihata and Makiko Sekiguchi)
- writtenafterwards (Designers: Yoshikazu Yamagata and Kentaro Tamai)
- MASAHIKO SAITO (Designer: Masahiko Saito)
- garconshinois (Designer: shin)
- HEATH (Designer: Gentaro Noda)
- GUT'S DYNAMITE CABARETS (Designers: Cabaret Aki and Jackal Kuzu)
- UNDER CASTLE (Designers: Shinichiro Shimojo and Eiji Matsunaga)
- G.V.G.V. (Designer: MUG)
Friday (September 5th)
- Raphus cucu (Designer: Eriko Isoya)
- LEP LUSS (Designers: Seiji Igeta and Yoshiko Kato)
- Hidenobu Yasui (Designer: Hidenobu Yasui)
- SOMARTA (Designer: Tamae Hirokawa)
- HIROKO KOSHINO (Designer: Hiroko Koshino)