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MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 26, 2016
Designer Jotaro Saito seeks to free the kimono from the confines of tradition
Jotaro Saito has been showcasing his kimono brand at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo since 2006, almost a decade before the eyebrow-raising appearance of X Japan frontman Yoshiki Hayashi's Yoshikimono brand at the event last October.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 26, 2016
Tokyo fashion week: Menswear is caught in the great divide
Trends for normcore restraint in current Japanese menswear have taken the mainstream hostage, prompting a divisive splinter on the Tokyo fashion week runways.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 24, 2015
Tokyo fashion week: Hiromichi Ochiai — man in the middle
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo wrapped up its runway shows at the Hikarie shopping complex in Shibuya Ward on Oct. 17, ending six days of presentations that showcased a wide range of collections for the upcoming 2016 spring/summer season.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 24, 2015
Tokyo fashion week: womenswear gets a welcome jolt of energy
The 2016 spring/summer womenswear lineup certainly threw up its fair share of surprises at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo earlier this month. The biggest talking point of the shows, however, was an edgy tribute to one of the country's traditional garbs — the luxurious kimono.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 24, 2015
Tokyo fashion week: menswear goes 'glocal'
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo's menswear collections are routinely lauded as the most courted commodity internationally, and yet the counterpoint is frequently forgotten — just what does menswear from abroad have to offer the week?
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 28, 2015
Christian Dada's Masanori Morikawa: making his own way
Tokyo's fashion fans spent six days in the middle of this month looking at the city from the lofty viewpoint afforded by Shibuya's Hikarie building, and yet for all the excitement that was generated over the coming fall/winter collections, the rest of the city still showed general ambivalence toward Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo. It's a situation that is frequently lamented by the industry, costing the event both publicity and international luster. It's also a situation that is difficult to account for in a city so patently in love with fashion.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 28, 2015
Tokyo fashion week: Womenswear celebrates an eclectic lineup; menswear draws inspiration from the street
Womenswear collections showcased in mid-March for the fall/winter 2015-16 season were decidedly eclectic in composition, including designs that were as street-savvy as they were cute.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Mar 13, 2015
Put on your fashion face and get ready for Tokyo fashion week
One of the hottest fashion items to come out of Japan recently isn't what you may expect it to be. Moisturizing face masks, a long-time part of Japanese women's beauty routine,have been getting a makeover. While most still resemble plastic-surgery post-op gauze, now you can also find ones that make you look like a monster, animal or even a member of KISS. It's become part of the "costume play" craze that has seen anime and manga seeping into mainstream style agendas.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 26, 2014
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo, as witnessed on social meda
The styles, the people, the looks of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo ... as witnessed on social media
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2014
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo: young blood
Ten years have now passed since Tokyo first strutted its stuff on the international catwalk and yet the metropolis still lacks the pulling power of rivals such as Milan, New York and Paris. As if the domestic industry didn't have enough on its plate, the wheels threatened to come off the spring/summer 2015 edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo even before it got off the ground, with Typhoon Vongfong bearing down on the capital at the beginning of the week. Fortunately, the storm turned out to be something of a damp squib as far as Tokyo was concerned, giving those in the industry the opportunity to showcase their collections in the clear skies that followed.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2014
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo: packing a punch
The womenswear showcased during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo marched to its own beat, with eye-opening collections coming from far-flung ends of the fashion spectrum. From stark minimalism to '80s idols, the collections delivered a pinata of fashion treats, and since the seasons change faster than you can say oshare (fashionable), let's jump right into the very best of the best.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2014
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo: Menswear looks for leadership
Christian Dada designer Masanori Morikawa's departure from Tokyo to show at Paris Fashion Week this season created an opportunity for a new headline act to emerge from the sidelines and seize the reins at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 25, 2014
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo: breaking with tradition
There is an identity crisis at the heart of Japanese fashion. It has two contradictory faces that it would like to reconcile — both domestically and abroad. On one hand, the image of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu acolytes posing on the streets of Harajuku prevails and yet, at the same time, the word "Japanese" invokes the image of traditional garments — regrettably reduced to just the kimono in most minds, simply a fixed aesthetic locked in time as a national costume rather than a fashion object.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Oct 10, 2014
Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week, Tokyo Kimono Week and more
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 29, 2014
Fashion Week Tokyo: open season
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo, held March 17-22, once again brings the hautest of the haute out of the woodwork.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 29, 2014
Fashion Week Tokyo: opposites attract womenswear designers
Collections reflect the antithetical nature of fashion in Japan
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 29, 2014
Fashion Week Tokyo: menswear's mixed messages
Designers continue to break new ground
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 29, 2014
Fashion Week Tokyo: opening the floodgates
International brands are no longer shunning the country's biannual collections
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Mar 10, 2014
Fashion week is here again; see what the ordinary folk are invited to
Don't miss out on Tokyo Fashion Week
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 10, 2013
Fashion Week's side shows give the public a rare seat next to their runways
Next week is Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo but, chances are, you’re not invited. Before that teen trauma of being excluded sets in, don’t panic — there’s a ton of alternative events to get dolled up for.
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Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
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Yen inches closer to intervention point as BOJ meeting starts
The rate of the yen against the U.S. dollar is displayed in the trading room at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.com in Tokyo on Thursday.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
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'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
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