Menswear at the Tokyo collections was, as usual, sparsely represented. Just a handful of designers sent any male models out onto the runways. And as for shows devoted solely to menswear, only Kohshin Satoh (for the Arrston Volaju brand), Kiminori Morishita (showing his own diffusion label within the Tete Homme company) and Hideaki Nishitaka (Shu-mei) produced the goods.
Noriko Fukushima, for the M.Y.K. Noriko line, had a token male model in her show; Eri Matsui doubled that and had two.
The inspiration for Matsui's collection was traditional Japanese archery (kyudo). Drawing on this she sent her male models out in voluminous hakama pants with wide pleats. For the finale, flowing cobalt-toned hakama with geometric origami-style folds were paired with petaled fuchsia tunic-tops. The look was more ethnic than high fashion, but these garments were nevertheless beautifully proportioned.