Tokyo Fall 2023

Keisuke Yoshida is one of Tokyo’s brightest young fashion talents. This season he closed an overall strong Tokyo Fashion Week with a collection that felt like he’d leveled-up. The 32-year-old designer has spent the past few seasons…

Kiichiro Asakawa is a softly spoken polymath that takes an overhead, almost scientific view of fashion rather than an introspective one. This is partly informed by his retail background. In addition to his brand Stein, he also runs the…

“This collection of mine is me staring back at me. It’s my portrait,” said Takeshi Kitazawa. The DressedUndressed designer had found himself figuratively looking in the mirror a lot over the past few months, and thinking about how clothes…

Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! Designer Emi Funayama spent the past few months rewatching the iconic 1972 musical Cabaret, and for this collection drew on the sensual confidence of Liza Minelli’s protagonist Sally Bowles for…

Hyke’s steady come-up has coincided with the wider rise of gorpcore, which at this point seems to have had its place in contemporary fashion cemented—helped along by the pandemic, which encouraged more people to get outside. But…

Attachment’s fall show played out across the running track in basement of the Japan National Stadium, a suitably industrial space for Koki Enomoto to present his work, which moves in the realm of uber-restrained simplicity.Enomoto was…

When Ryota Murakami was eight years old growing up in Osaka, he showed up at school one day wearing a quirky wool sweater that his mother had lovingly knitted for him. “I was ridiculed for it,” he recalled backstage at his runway show,…

Harunobu Murata spent most of his twenties in Europe, where he worked at Jil Sander under Lucie and Luke Meier. He founded his eponymous brand in Milan in 2018 before relocating back to his native Japan, bringing with him a sense of learned…

“I don’t want the world to view me as a Japanese designer; I want them to see me in my own right,” said Yohei Ohno during his fall presentation at a gallery in Shibuya. It’s an understandable protest, especially given how guilty the fashion…

Fall 2023 is a sort of coming of age moment for Soshi Otsuki, as it marks 10 years since his first collection. Back in 2013, the designer was still a student (he graduated from Bunka Fashion College before training at Coconogacco, an…