Very Few People In Fashion Industry Are Willing To Take Part In Tokyo Fashion Week.

This year, a total of 50 thousand people took part in the Tokyo fashion week, even though it was the four largest in the world.

"The number of New York fashion week with the least number of participants is only 1/4 of the latter.

After finishing the "four big" itinerary, very few people in the fashion industry are willing to travel further and further away from Tokyo. Even in Japan, the fashion week in Tokyo did not cause much trouble.

According to a public opinion poll in Japan,

221 Japanese, stylists and editors.

Only 20% expressed interest in Tokyo fashion week.

No big name, no open to ordinary people, no show to buy, are listed as Tokyo fashion week deficiencies.

Despite the cold shoulder, this year's fashion week in Tokyo still has bright spots to look for.

Respecting tradition

On the first day of the fashion week, as a special program, the Japanese rock star Yoshiki Hayashi's kimono brand, YOSHIKIMONO, released the 2017 series.

Combined with pparent PVC, leather and other traditional techniques and modern technology to improve the kimono became the biggest attraction of this show.

The YOSHIKIMONO conference began with the piano accompaniment of Lin Jia Shu. The models wearing traditional kimono and clogs went on in succession. Their kimono fabrics were painted with rhombohedral, red skin resembling snake skin, or silver and gold leather with metallic luster.

The new series also has evolved from kimono, with a checkerboard, zebra, red and pink flowers, spots, skeletons and other patterns of breast dress, short kimono, shoes with shoes also changed from clogs to high-heeled shoes.

Finally, heavy rain appeared on the stage ceiling, wearing a pparent PVC coat and a naked model on the upper part of the stage.

Bayashi Yoshiki said that the inspiration for the rain came from the British designer Alexander McQueen, who had set up similar scenes in 1998's show.

Bayashi Yoshiki said: "the whole kimono industry is at risk. No matter whether I agree with or oppose it, I think YOSHIKIMONO will help arouse people's interest in kimono.

I want more people to know kimono and be interested in it. "

Bold innovation

Turkey designer Umit Benan, who first participated in fashion week in Tokyo, said she would withdraw from Paris fashion week.

He thinks Japanese men's clothing is "the most abundant on the street".

Umit Benan believes that Tokyo has the most creative buyers and designers in the world, and the smartest consumers.

"I want to focus here and try to create a new wave in the Japanese fashion industry."

Over the past five years, Umit Benan has gone to 40 several times in Japan.

Unit Benan believes that Japan's fabric is second only to Italy.

Because Japanese are brave enough to break through, for example, mixing nylon with cashmere.

"The Italians didn't have the courage to add nylon to the fabric worth 200 euros.

In Japan, they are very flexible and creative, very natural.

When you touch it, you will sigh what it is. "

Beauty of handwork

Tokyo has long been a springboard for emerging designers, and now more and more people are interested in neighboring Seoul and Shanghai.

Hongkong designer Qu Wanjun (Vickie Au) brought the brand "Urban Chill" series to New York after attending the fashion week in New York.

"To me, Tokyo is an Asian fashion center with a long history of fashion."

Qu Wanjun's personal Street breeze brand House of V is dominated by simple and neat line design. This season's work is inspired by the famous architectural designer Frank Gehry, which is in line with Japanese aesthetics.

Qu Wanjun has set up boutiques in Hongkong, mainland China and Taiwan, and has also expanded the business of electronic commerce, and is now trying to enter Japan and the US market.

Qu Wanjun said Yamamoto Teruji inspired her, "he is a master of modern and pioneer clipping styles."

French Kocher KOCH Christelle, the creative director of French brand, is the only French brand to attend the fashion week of Tokyo.

"I think Japanese culture is the most elegant. They know the beauty of handwork and the beauty of time in making good things."

humanistic concern

Tsuruta Yoshi's (Takafumi Tsuruta) founded Japan's "bias free" brand, Tenbo, as an unprofessional model of blind people, disabled persons, psexuals and so on. On this fashion show, there is also a 83 year old model Maki Miyo, who was once a leprosy patient and has recovered.

The new Tenbo series focuses on the sick leprosy group.

Although leprosy has been cured since the invention of Promin in 1940s, there are still tens of thousands of people worldwide suffering from it every year in 1940s. Promin

At the same time, many people who recover will still be treated differently because of the mistaken idea that patients will be infected after cure.

Because of sequelae can cause obvious facial and limb deformities, making this bias more difficult to eliminate.

Therefore, Maki Miyo, like thousands of leprosy healers, lives a "secluded" life.

Tsuruta Yoshi said: "on this stage, she is not only showing clothing, but also confronting prejudice."

At the start of the conference, a model walked on the T stage as a leprosy. The other two models wore the costumes printed with the words "No Leprosy" and escorted the former from the stage.

Tsuruta Yoshi said: "fashion is a tool to convey messages in a gentle and goodwill way.

Leprosy is a global disease with a history of more than 1000 years.

Even now that it can be cured, people who are recovering are still suffering from vilify and discrimination.

In Japan, leprosy patients are sent to the sanatorium for quarantine.

Because of policy problems, couples who are married in sanatorium will be forced to undergo sterilisation surgery so that pregnant women will abort and newborns will be killed.

An official survey in 2005 showed that 114 Japanese fetuses and babies were soaked in Faure Marin's 6 National Sanatorium.

The new Tenbo series has printed these babies on clothing for mourning.