Today, “Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO (hereinafter indicated as Rakuten FWT) 2023 A/W” (governing body: the Japan Fashion Week Organization, hereinafter indicated as JFWO), welcomed its fourth day.
 
●The first runway show of day 4 was the award-winning brand of last year’s TOKYO FASHION AWARD, pillings (12:00~).
pillings by designer, Ryota Murakami, presented a runway show at the Official venue of Shibuya Hikarie. In the collection in which he commented, “this season, I wanted to challenge basics”, despite its basic atmosphere at first glance, items with a twist, such as knits using hole, fray and other techniques, pants purposely covered with pills by fulling the cloth, etc. were presented, expressing a unique worldview.
 

 

 

Also worthy of attention is the coordination made possible thanks to shoes provided by the British shoes brand, fitflop.
 
●Digital presentation by first time participant, “08sircus” (14:00~)
“08sircus” started in the 2010 S/S season at Paris by designer Kiminori Morishita, who, in 2003, launched “kiminori morishita” and after participating in the Tokyo Collection, has been participating at the Paris Collection since 2007.
At the beginning they had been suggesting men’s collections, but from the 2012-13 A/W season, they have been developing women’s collections. This season, he is participating in Tokyo fashion week as 08sircus, for the very first time.

 

 
●The SDGs event, “Starting from water and to the earth, the sustainable story that ZERO-TEX will fulfill”
Since the 22 S/S season, JFWO has been transmitting “SDGs that fashion can do” through a variety of projects. In the 2023 A/W season, for 3 days starting todays, March 16th (Thurs.) ~ March 18th (Sat.), at the Official venue of Shibuya Hikarie 8/COURT, “A sustainable story played by ZERO-TEX ~ the building of a fashion industry that can be enjoyed for 100 years to come” will be held. At the venue, a movie concerning the sustainable story of ZERO- TEX and objects will be shown, along with an exhibit titled “Clothes that respect individuality, and can be worn for years to come”, exhibiting a collection created by three future designers (Ms. Chieko Ikegami, Ms. Yuri Ikegaya, Ms. Risa Fugetsu) presently studying at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology in NY), entrusted with the possibilities of “ZERO-TEX®”, a textile which Japan prides.
Today, being the first day of this event, as an Official event of Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO 2023 AW, a talk session under the theme of “sustainability and education in the fashion business” took place. In the talk session, the three FIT students x Mr. Akihide Nishikawa (developer of ZERO-TEX/CEO of Yamagin inc.) welcomed Mr. Sho Konishi, a designer presently residing in NY/sustainability researcher, as a special guest, to talk about things he learned, realized through his studies of “fashion study” at NY and Paris, experiences at the competitions he challenged, how sustainability should be the fashion industry from hereon, etc.
 



 
A sustainable story played by ZERO-TEX®
March 16th (Thurs.) ~ March 18th (Sat.)
March 16th (Thus.) 12:00 – 20:00 / March 17th (Fri.) 10:00 – 20:00 / March 18th (Sat.) 10:00 – 18:00 Shibuya Hikarie 8F, 8/COURT (2-21-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
Sponsored by: ZERO-TEX by Yamagin inc
Cooperation: Japan Fashion Week Organization
 
●Start of exhibition by JFW NEXT BRAND AWARD 2023 Special Recognition Award winning brands, “HAENGNAE” and “natsumi osawa”
“JFW NEXT BRAND AWARD”, a new brand support program of JFWO which started from the Rakuten FWT 2023 S/S season. The 2023 A/W COLLECTION EXHIBITION of “HAENGNAE” and “natsumi osawa”, the two brands receiving the Special Recognition Award of the physical division, starts today at Shibuya Hikarie, 8F, CUBE.
 
HAENGNAE / natsumi osawa 23 A/W COLLECTION EXHIBITION
TIME/DATE: March 16th (Thurs.) ~ March 18th (Sat.)
March 16th (Thus.) 13:00-20:00 / March 17th (Fri.) 11:00-20:00 / March 18th (Sat.) 11:00-19:00 PLACE: Shibuya Hikarie, 8F, 8/CUBE (2-21-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
 


 
●TOKYO FASHION AWARD 2023 award winning brand, AKIKOAOKI (19:00~) presented a runway show at the Official venue of Shibuya Hikarie.
“AKIKOAOKI”, a women’s wear brand launched by the designer, Akiko Aoki in the 2015 S/S season, was the last to present a physical show today. It was a collection that fully expressed her unique worldview of “with an innate sense, cutting away the fantasy lying dormant within fashion”, which is at the root of her creations.
 

 

 
■Carrying out of “DIGITAL VOICE”
The continuance of the well received “RECOMMEND” project from past seasons, in which looks and/or attention gathering points of each brand is introduced directly in recommendation form by fashionistas representing Japan and overseas. In addition, the “MY RUNWAY” project in which the street photographer, mitograph, photographs scenes from shows and snaps of guests at the venue, is also being carried out. Please be sure to check out the Rakuten FWT Official SNS account.
 
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MY RUNWAY