Tokyo Spring 2023

Designer Tsukasa Kudo spent his youth in the early 2000s in his hometown of Okinawa, Japan. His childhood and the looming American streetwear culture that so heavily influenced it — partly due to the American military bases that resided…

Takeshi Kitazawa takes a long-term view when it comes to life, and fashion. One example of this is the way he conceived of his fall 2022 and spring 2023 shows as a unit; both dedicated to the late Japanese artist and AIDS activist Teiji…

Every season, Hyke designers Hideaki Yoshihara and Yukiko Ode infuse their work with a sense of utility and sport mixed with ease and femininity. For spring, they built upon these signature codes, and drew further inspiration from the great…

Takayuki Chino of Cinoh has been, like many other designers at the moment, thinking of the intricacies of gender identity and expression, and their relationship to fashion. Genderlessness and fluidity seem to puzzle some designers these…

For spring, Fetico designer Emi Funayama found herself drawing inspiration from the Japanese actor and writer Izumi Suzuki, whose science fiction stories gained prominence in the 1970s. Funayama was particularly fascinated by the writer’s…

The Rainmaker spring show opened with the electronic musician and composer Eiko Ishibashi standing in front of a piano inside Kyoto’s Kyocera Museum of Art wearing a navy tunic over a pair of back trousers. Soon after she began playing, the…