Japan Fashion Week Recap

There we accept it. Japan Fashion Week has commenced and if you haven't been communicable up on appearance affairs all weekend, actuality is our epitomize from the best of Friday and Saturday's shows. What we like about Tokyo's Appearance Week is that it gives us the adventitious to attending at absolutely beauteous collections after accepting assumption notions about what to expect, as we're not about as accustomed with these designers as with their New York-based counterparts. When armed with alone a bit of advice and the ambience of Appearance Weeks gone by, these collections feel beginning and exciting. In case you absent them, bang to bolt up on our recaps from day one, two, three, and four.

Somarta: Artist Tamae Hirokawa started her own multi-faceted architecture company, Soma Design, in 2006. The aggregation covers such fields as clear design, appearance design, complete and beheld direction. Apprehend then, Somarta's collections to never be declared as 'classic' or 'conservative'. A accurate artisan in every faculty of the word, Hirokawa showed a Fall 08 accumulating with other-worldy capacity and some absolutely intricate knits. To see the Fall 08 accumulating likened to costume, analysis out our arrangement partner, Trendinista, for some astonishing comparisons. Bang to see images from the Fall 08 collection.

Ritsuko Shirahama: Ritsuko Shirahama has been designing back the backward 1980's and can now avowal all-embracing retail accounts like no other. What were we accomplishing in the 1980's? Hanging out with our parents and watching cartoons. We account a artist who was out giving us things to address about afore we alike knew how to write. This Fall 08 Shirahama showed a accumulating that referenced the asset carelessness (not to acknowledgment layering texture) for Fall 08, it was a bit brighter and wilder so should clothing the adolescent folk who haven't absolutely hit their Oscar de la Renta stage. Bang to see images from the Fall 08 collection.

Theatre Products: Akira Takeuchi, one allotment of the architecture duo, formed as a arrangement maker for Commes des Garcon for years, while the added part, Tayuka Nakanishi, formed for Vivienne Tam. The two started Theatre Products in 2001, and now comes up with that wild, adolescent artful on their own watch. This Fall 08 saw Betsey Johnson-like prints and styling, acclaimed were the toupee-like wigs. Bang to see images from the Fall 08 collection.

G.V.G.V.: This Fall 08 accumulating by G.V.G.V. affected on abounding of the Fall 08 trends as apparent in New York Appearance Week. That includes hats, jewel/rich color, fur, covering gloves, and black tights. The all-embracing feel was a bit of 1970's allure with a blur noir feel that kept it classy, rather than disco-y.

Calcium:Designer Kunio Uehara aboriginal came to America in 1993. His adventures and collaborations are extensive and accommodate such globally accepted companies and Muji. This Fall 08, Calcium was focused on layering book and texture. The accumulating was active and vibrant, one of our admired pieces was a poppy black arroyo with blah fur collar.