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Applications for the 6th Japan Fashion Week in TOKYO

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Tokyo Collection Week
JFW Designers' Exhibition

Qualification

In order to participate in the Tokyo Collection Week, you must be a member of the Council of Fashion Designers Tokyo (CFD). If a designer is not a member of the CFD, please make sure to contact the following address or number before registration. However, this does not apply to participants from overseas.

Council of Fashion Designers, Tokyo.
Contact persons : Tachizaki / Oyanagi
Address : Alfa Eight Minamiaoyama 202, 5-5-20 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku,Tokyo 107-0062
Tel : +81-3-3498-5971

Date

Tokyo Collection Week / Mon, March 10 – Sat, March 15, 2008
JFW Designers' Exhibition / Wed, March 12 – Fri, March 14, 2008 *Predeterminate

Venues

Tokyo Collection Week
Tokyo Midtown Hall Hall A, Hall B / LAFORET MUSEUM ROPPONGI / Other venues

JFW Designers' Exhibition
JFW Designers’ Exhibition : Tokyo Midtown ATRIUM *Predeterminate

Exhibition contract and fees

Usage fees for venues

Tokyo Collection Week Tokyo Midtown Hall Hall A 1,700,000 yen -
(consumption tax not included)
*Additional usage fee: 150,000 yen/hour (consumption tax not included) In some cases, an additional labor charge is required for overtime technical services.
LAFORET MUSEUM ROPPONGI 900,000 yen -
(consumption tax not included)
*Additional usage fee: 80,000 yen/hour (consumption tax not included) In some cases, an additional labor charge is required for overtime technical services.
Tokyo Midtown Hall Hall B Free of charge
(Venue for Designer Support Program)
*Additional usage fee: 60,000 yen/hour (consumption tax not included) In some cases, an additional labor charge is required for overtime technical services.
JFW Designers' Exhibition Tokyo Midtown ATRIUM 200,000 yen -
(consumption tax not included)

Registration fee
In the case that you participate in the Tokyo Collection Week, you are required to pay a registration fee of 100,000 yen (consumption tax not included)

Note
After you are officially accepted as an exhibitor, an exhibition contract and a bill for exhibition fees (usage fee for venues, registration fee) will be sent to you.
Please send the completed exhibition contract back to the Secretariat by Fri, January 11, 2008.
The exhibition fees stated above should be transferred to the designated bank account by Fri, February 29, 2008.
If you fail to meet the requirements, we may disqualify you from the exhibition.

Application guidelines

Documents to be submitted

  1. When applying, please bring or send an application form and designer information data (this should be on CD-ROM) to the Fashion Strategy Forum Secretariat by Wed, December 5, 2007. (You are kindly requested NOT to apply via e-mail or fax.) As for an application form and designer information hearing sheet, please download them from the )“Application page” of the official site (http://www.jfw.jp/)


  2. For those applying for the Tokyo Collection Week and the JFW Designers’ Exhibition for the first time, please bring or send a designer profile and brand information materials (lookbook with product photos, etc…) as screening materials, together with your application form and designer information data (CD-ROM).
    Designer profile and brand information materials should be submitted in printed output form, NOT on CD-ROM.
    Please be advised that any submitted materials are not returnable.


  3. For those who wish to apply for the Designer Support Program, please bring or send a designer profile and brand information materials (lookbook with product photos, etc…) as screening materials, together with your application form and designer information data (CD-ROM).
    Designer profile and brand information materials should be submitted in printed output form, NOT on CD-ROM. Please be advised that any submitted materials are not returnable.
Document No. Documents Submit to Submission Deadline
NO.1 Application form Fashion Strategy Forum Secretariat No later than Wed, December 5, 2007
NO.2 Designer information data(Submit on CD-ROM)
1.Logo data
2.Image(Portrait)
3.Text data(Designer information hearing sheet)

Application form download
Applicants should download the application forms listed below and send the completed forms to the Fashion Strategy Forum Secretariat.

  1. Application form(PDF)
  2. Designer Information Hearing Sheet(Excel)
  3. Exhibition Information(PDF)

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Application Deadline
Applications must arrive at the Secretariat No later than Wed, December 5, 2007.

Screening for Exhibition at the Tokyo Collection Week and the JFW Designers’ Exhibition

The Exhibition Coordination Committee will examine all submitted documents and select the exhibitors and recipients of the Designer Support Program. Designers who apply for the Designer Support Program need to have an interview after they have passed the application screening. As for an interview date, we will contact them separately. The JFW Designers’ Exhibition will be held when more than 6 brands were selected.
In terms of the results, these will be forwarded to the listed contact person via e-mail by Fri, December 21, 2007. Please be advised that we do not accept any inquiries regarding the screening results.

Screening for exhibition at the Tokyo Collection Week
Screening will be conducted by the following criteria.

  1. Creativity
    ・You must have clear brand concept.
    ・Your business must be continued.


  2. A minimum level of business management system
    ・Trademark must be registered.
    ・You must have an operation system to meet the exhibition outline.
    ・You must have capacity to pay exhibition fees.


  3. Business meeting during the JFW
    ・You must have a plan to hold exhibition/business meeting within the JFW’s time frame.
    ・You must have a manufacturing system to deal with received order.

*If you participated in the past JFW and caused the following problems, these problems may affect the screening.
・You changed schedule without notice and created confusion.
・You did not hold exhibition/business meeting.
・You eroded people’s trust in JFW.

Screening for the JFW Designers’ Exhibition
Screening will be conducted by the same criteria as the Tokyo Collection Week.Screening will be conducted by the same criteria as the Tokyo Collection Week.

Designer Support Program
JFW will offer the Designer Support Program for selected designers and provide Tokyo Midtown Hall Hall B free of charge as an exhibition venue.

  1. Qualifications
    Applicants for the Designer Support Program must meet the following qualifications.
    (1) Your brand must be less than 5 years old from the date of company establishment, brand launch or the start of collection.
    (2) Nationality is no object however, you must meet any of the following conditions.
    1.You must have your business base in Japan.
    2.You must create products in Japan.


  2. Criteria of selecting
    Selecting of the Designer Support Program will be conducted based on the following criteria.
    (1)You must meet the exhibition criteria of the Tokyo Collection Week.
    For the details, please see “Screening for exhibition at the Tokyo Collection Week”.
    (2)Your business must have potential to grow.
    (3)A need of financial support must be accepted.
    (4)There is no limit of number of support but after the second support, we will examine designers considering their actual achievement.


  3. Process of selecting
    Selecting of the Designer Support Program will be conducted based on the following process.
    (1)Screening of the application documents
    (2)Interview

Notes

Collection tickets
Exhibitors at the Tokyo Collection Week are requested to provide the organizer with collection tickets (invitations). We are planning to issue about 60 of those tickets for Tokyo Midtown Hall Hall A, about 30 for LAFOLET MUSEUM ROPPONGI, about 30 for Tokyo Midtown Hall Hall B and about 20 for other venues.
We will offer them to the official sponsors and as web tickets present. As for the number of tickets going to the invited journalists from overseas, these will be forwarded to you separately.

Permission for recording, videotaping and photography
At both the Tokyo Collection Week and the JFW Designers’ Exhibition, the organizer or the persons authorized by the organizer shall record, videotape and photograph to create recorded, videotaped and photographed materials (hereinafter referred to as “recorded audio/visual materials”).
Please be advised that the organizer reserves the right to offer and use the recorded audio/visual materials for publicity and/or advertising purposes. (including distribution via internet and hard copies.)

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