Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo finished on Saturday. Days 4 to 7 featured Christian Dada, DressedUndressed, Motonari Ono, and Phenomenon. Japan Fashion Week Organization Christian Dada Japanese label Christian Dada showcased its latest collection on the Tokyo Midtown runway last Wednesday. Since Christian Dada successfully made its Fashion Week début for spring–summer 2012 season, it has […]
Photos courtesy of Japan Fashion Week Organization The first three days of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo’s autumn–winter 2012–13 featured Somarta, Kamishima Chinami, Yasutoshi Ezumi, and A Degree Fahrenheit among others. Somarta Somarta’s Tamae Hirokawa was previously in charge of Issey Miyake Men and Women, and is also known for the heel-less footwear collaboration with Noritaka […]
Chanel celebrates the little black jacket with Karl Lagerfeld photographic exhibition in Tokyo
Chanel has opened its exhibition, The Little Black Jacket: Chanel’s Classic Revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, featuring 113 photographs taken by Lagerfeld, at the G-Building in Aoyama, Tokyo. The photographs celebrate the iconic jacket and have been taken in various styles by the famed designer. They will appear in a 332 pp. […]
Yuima Nakazato’s collection at Japan Fashion Week expresses a Future/Classic theme
Japan Fashion Week Organization Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo opened its door on Sunday. This is the second season since Mercedes-Benz came to Tokyo to sponsor Japan Fashion Week. Since then, the designer line-up and runway shows have become more solid. The key visual for this season’s collections is Future/Classic. Art Director, Kaie Murakami, expresses […]
Japanese designers continue to make splashes globally
Lucire’s coverage of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo is online today in the main part of the website. Not content with bringing back the event after a cancellation earlier in 2011 due to the earthquake and tsunami, peripheral events, including an international edition of Fashion’s Night Out with all 17 Vogue editors, made sure that the […]
Mercedes-Benz launches C-Klasse coupé in Japan with Fashion Week designers
Mercedes-Benz Japan Above Mercedes-Benz Japan President and CEO, Nicholas Speeks, and Vice President, Kintaro Ueno, at the C-Klasse Coupé launch at Fashion Week. Mercedes-Benz presented its new C-class coupé for the Japanese market on the 17th, at a press event held right after Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week of Tokyo kicked off. CEO and President of […]
Lady Gaga tells Japan to never give up; Jennifer Aniston on Horrible Bosses
With her eyes shut, Lady Gaga, at the MTV Video Music Aid Japan benefit show, told Japanese fans to ‘never give up on the dream of Japan, never give up on the dream of its people, and never give up on the dream of the future.’ The show raised funds for the Japanese Red […]
Global round-up: international fashion; Japanese inspiration; Jessica Alba talks motherhood
The main part of the Lucire website has had some international fashion round-ups. Not only have fashion editor Sopheak Seng and Paris editor Lola Saab made their picks from the New York fall collections (with more to come), but Joanna Mroczkowska has filed her report from Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week in Poland, and, importantly, Yuka […]
Win a trip to Tokyo or New York with Za
Here’s a tip from our friends at Za: a competition to win a trip to Tokyo or New York open to New Zealand residents. Check it out at www.seewhathappens.co.nz. Za itself is available from mid-November in New Zealand, with retailers listed at the See What Happens site. You may also like Rodney Wayne client wins […]
H&M opens in Harajuku, shows Comme des Garçons collaboration
With the Japanese economy at risk of deflation, it’s probably not a bad time to open a retail store that specializes in low prices. H&M’s new store in Harajuku, Tokyo, opened yesterday and was one of two that showed the Swedish brand’s latest designer collaboration—this time, with one of Japan’s own: Rei Kawakubo of Comme […]
