Japan Fashion Week Fall 09: writtenafterwards

Posted by fashionentrepreneurreport On Saturday, March 28, 2009

One of the reasons fashion icons like Gwen Stefani and even social-celeb Paris Hilton site Tokyo as one of their biggest influence is the risks designers take. New textiles, outlandish shapes, sculptural aspects that become more innovation that functionable fashion.

writtenafterwards by designers Yoshikazu Yamagata and Kentaro Tamai are following in the footsteps of their predecessors as the ones to watch in modern Japanese fashion culture. Yamagata graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design majoring in womenswear in 2005. He won three categories of the International Competition, "its#3". After working for John Galliano as an assistant designer, he returned to Japan. Tamai graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design majoring in menswear in 2004. He worked for Margaret Howell UK and Japan as a menswear designer. Their Fall 09 collection was massive on volume. Many pieces were placed to construct each garment, and although probably difficult to wear in the streets, the black and white pieces had just a touch of reality that I could see a risk taker actually sporting it to an event, provided that they had their own V.I.P. for space.

-Lynn Furge