With Japan Fashion Week shows now running concurrently with the Tokyo International Film Festival, it was hard sometimes not to liken the collections to films.
Theatre Products had "A Passage to India" theme in its collection of traditional Indian embroidery and linen fused with European lace and modern commercialism (one model cradled a giant bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin).
Then there was Mikiosakabe's collection of heavy-metal T-shirts and messy-hair models straight out of "This is Spinal Tap"; while at Nozomi Ishiguro Haute Couture the designer went for a gritty "Blade Runner" feel with metallic street-urchin styling and prints that looked as if he'd silk-screened a slum wall.