Japan Fashion Week kicked off for the seventh time yesterday with seven shows by some of Japan's most promising young designers. If you're interested in checking out the collections in detail, both the official JFW website and WWD online are posting snapshots from the shows.
A schedule for the week is shown below. If you are interested in past topics related to fashion in Japan, you may want to check out these links to related areas of this website: Fashion, Luxury Goods, Retailing.
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Tokyo Fashion Week, 2008 (S/S 2009)
September 1-5
List of participating brands and their websites (click on the brand name to visit the site)
Monday, September 1
Mint Designs
Mikio Sakabe
Takumi Hatakeyama
MerciBeaucoup
Motonari Ono
Ritsuko Shirahama
Fur Fur
Tuesday, September 2
Akira Naka
Support Surface
Hisui
Aguri Sagimori
Chinami Kamishima
ato
Wednesday, September 3
Everlasting Sprout
Li Lang
Izreel
Noriko Fukushima
Junya Tashiro
tiny dinosaur
Sunao Kuwahara
zechia
Boutique Nicole by Kyoko Higa
Thursday, September 4
Zin Kato
matohu
written afterwards
Masahiko Saito
Garcon Shinois
HEATH
Guts Dynamite Cabarets
Under Castle
G.V.G.V.
Friday, September 5
Raphus cUcU
LEP LUSS
Hidenobu Yasui
SOMARTA
Hiroko Koshino
* All photos shown above © Japan Fashion Week Organization
