Fashion
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Environmentally Friendly Attire Showcased at Tokyo Fashion Week; Brand Displays Clothes Dyed with Low-Water Technology
Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo for the spring and summer 2025 season opened on Monday, with about 30 ...
September 4, 2024
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Exhibition Tracing Fashion Designer Kenzo Takada’s Life; Displaying Colorful Clothes that Brightened the Fashion World
An exhibition introducing the history of fashion designer Kenzo Takada and his creations is being...
August 30, 2024
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Fashion Designer Seeks Japanese Identity in Her Knitting; Wants to Hold Own Show in Paris
Odaka is trying to appeal to the brand’s Japanese origin. “I want to nurture the brand so that it...
August 2, 2024
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Milan Fashion Week: Prada Projects Youthful Optimism
MILAN (AP) — Without making overt statements, Milan designers expressed their concern over the gl...
June 27, 2024
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Fashion Designer Yumi Katsura Gets Rosy in Tokyo Show; Leading Japanese Bridal Fashion for Nearly 60 Years
Bridal fashion designer Yumi Katsura hosted a fashion show in Tokyo on March 5, unveiling about 70 n...
April 27, 2024
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2024 Autumn/Winter Tokyo Fashion Week Kicks Off in Shibuya; Event Held Through Saturday
The 2024 Autumn/Winter Tokyo Collection kicked off Monday. Pays des Fees, known for its strangely...
March 11, 2024
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The Revival of West Japan’s Kokura-ori and Its Beauty of Vertical Stripes
FUKUOKA — Kokura-ori is a cotton fabric that was once used to make samurai hakama pants and other...
March 10, 2024
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Anna Wintour and the World of Fashion
A biography of famed fashion editor Anna Wintour, “Anna: The Biography” by Amy Odell, was translated...
March 2, 2024
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Giorgio Armani-Yuichi Toyama Eyewear Collection is Elegant and Timeless
The year 2024 started with the Noto Peninsula Earthquake on New Year’s Day, a catastrophic disaster ...
February 3, 2024
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Made-in-Japan Clothing Makes Debut During Men’s Fashion Week in Paris
PARIS — In a bid to promote high-quality clothing made entirely in Japan to a worldwide audience, a ...
January 22, 2024
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Tomo Koizumi Thrills the World by Combining Art and Fashion
A new year has begun. However, 2024 is unlikely to be a great year because I fear the current social...
January 6, 2024
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Thoughts on Rei Kawakubo Becoming a Person of Cultural Merit
The government has designated fashion design icon Rei Kawakubo a Person of Cultural Merit. Followi...
December 2, 2023
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Tokyo’s Shinjuku District Home to Traditional Kimono-Dyeing Technique
Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward, famous for its soaring skyscrapers and neon lights that adorn the Kabukicho d...
November 19, 2023
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Major Fashion Brands Taking Notice of Opposition to Exotic Leathers
At the latest Paris Fashion Week that ended in October, a woman caused a scene by crashing the show ...
November 19, 2023
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Make Your Custom Lipstick Shade at a Specialty Shop in Shibuya
All 50 vials of various pigments were placed on a table. As a small amount of blue pigment was added...
November 10, 2023
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