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Japan Fashion Week to celebrate 20 years with forward-looking Rakuten FWT

The Japan Fashion Week Organisation (JFWO) is celebrating its 20th anniversary for the spring/summer 2026 season, and with it will come a future-orientated edition of Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo (FWT). This season, both the fashion week’s visual theme – ‘The Future Doesn’t Appear Out of Nowhere’ – as well as its overall theme – ‘Be the seam that...

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Pitti Uomo deepens collaboration with Japanese Children of the Discordance

Pitti Uomo is deepening its collaboration with the Japan Fashion Week Organization and presenting the brand Children of the Discordance. The Florentine menswear trade fair aims to “highlight the most innovative creative research on the international scene” at its upcoming edition, trade fair organiser Pitti Immagine announced on Wednesday. As...

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Rakuten and Japan Fashion Week Organization Announce Partnership Agreement for TOKYO Fashion Week

Rakuten to become headline sponsor for Tokyo Fashion Week. “Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO” to be held in October 2019. Tokyo, August 1, 2019 – Rakuten Inc. and the Japan Fashion Week Organization (“JFWO”) today announced that the two organizations have formed a partnership which will make Rakuten the headline sponsor for TOKYO Fashion Week. Based...

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It's raining kimonos in Tokyo at Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo

It's raining kimonos in Tokyo. US-based Japanese heavy-metal superstar Yoshiki kicked off Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo by sending models down the runway in sexy, reimagined kimonos drenched in a downpour Monday. It may not be high fashion to purists, but such is the fame of the dyed-blonde, androgynous-looking co-founder of rock band X Japan that...