A tipster alerted us the other day to an interesting new addition to the official Tokyo Fashion Week calendar: American Apparel. Yep, the controversial purveyors of all things retro and cotton will stage some sort of show during fashion week in Tokyo and we were kind of confused about it. Tokyo Fashion Week has experienced Read more →
semblance of normalcy. Tokyo fashion week just ended over the weekend, and we’d say that the mood of Japanese designers for spring is pretty hopeful and joyful.
In addition to a lot of the trends we’ve seen in New York and Europe–like peplum, print-mixing, transparency, and playing with volume–Tokyo also served up a lot of its signature playfulness and attention to detail.
Click through to see some of the highlights from the shows.
If there’s a fashion week happening anywhere in the world, Derek Blasberg will find it. He’s in Tokyo at the moment, and he just tweeted: Some Tokyo fashion scoop: bumped into the model Irina Lazareanu at a show today and she told me she’s here working on her own fashion line. Japan birthed Agyness Deyn’s Read more →
