TOKYO, March 13 (Xinhua) — Tokyo Fashion Week kicked off right here Monday with a bunch of established and up-and-coming designers set to showcase their visions on runways and at occasions within the capital.
The twice-annual occasion specializing in collections for autumn and winter and identified formally as “Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO” noticed the capital’s fashionistas end up en masse regardless of the drizzle on the opening day of the occasion, to get the inside track on the most recent upcoming traits.
Centered round Shibuya’s iconic Hikarie constructing and upscale Omotesando Hills, the primary day’s choices included artistic visions from the likes of Takanori Nagano and Chika Kisada.
Nagano, a graduate of Tokyo’s iconic MODE GAKUEN College of Fashion & Design, drawing on themes from anime, artwork, and movie, showcased his customary free suits and popping colours for his males’s SEVESKIG model’s ready-to-wear assortment.
Kisada, in the meantime, with a background in ballet, fused a “punk-like” power into her girls’s assortment, sending fashions sashaying down the runway imparting a way of “tempo”, “determination”, and the “individuality” of feminine urbanites who’re all the time on the go.
The line-up of designers and types comprising this season’s Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO is, as with years previous, conspicuously missing within the worldwide range seen at extra prodigious style weeks within the likes of Paris, Milan, London and New York, in addition to the slew of A-list superstar fashions garnering the eye of photographers’ lenses that the larger international occasions appeal to.
Tokyo’s biannual occasion this season, nevertheless, guarantees to showcase an eclectic vary of homegrown expertise from relative newcomers alongside extra established manufacturers within the days forward, on runways, installations, at events and on-line occasions within the capital.