Tokyo Design Week brings together international and local designers, manufacturers, retailers and entrepreneurs for a raft of exhibitions, gatherings and design-related events, and, of course, parties -- wherever designers get together, a party is not too far away. But apart from the civilized pleasure of tripping from opening to opening in the backstreets of Aoyama on a hazy cushion of bubbly, what is TDW all about? The Japan Times ran the champagne gauntlet, slipped behind the designer shades, and tried to find out what's on the minds of some of the influential denizens of this well-dressed demimonde.