Archives: Japan
Asian Fashion Fascinating Fact (III)
Did you know that? To preserve their elaborate coiffures, geishas in ancient Japan slept with their heads on bags filled with buckwheat chaff. Now you know! :)— Puti Karina Puar • August 3rd, 2008
Asian Fashion Fascinating Fact (II)
Did you know that? Fashionable women in medieval Japan gilded or blackened their teeth. Today many women in India stain their teeth bright red to enhance their appearence. Now you know! :)— Puti Karina Puar • July 30th, 2008
Mikio Sakabe
Still from Japan Fashion Week Fall 08-09, another designer that caught my attention was Mikio Sakabe. She showed chic and playful outfits, made us feel like watching the dolls were walking on the runway. Mikio Sakabe graduated from ESMOD Paris in 2002, and continued her fashion education in Hogeschool Antwerpen, Fashion Department, Antwerp, Belgium, to 2006.— Puti Karina Puar • July 4th, 2008
Hisui
Japanese designer are always inspiring. They tend to think out of the box. Like HISUI collection on Japan Fashion Week Fall 08-09 in this picture. Hisui is an arty Japanese brand with Hiroko Ito as the designer. Its signatures are psychedelic, swirling graphic prints and geometric motifs. Hisui’s ingeniousness is a big hit and loved by [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 29th, 2008
Teresa Helbig, Inspired by Anime and Manga
Japanese anime and manga have always been a thing for fashion designer. Teresa Helbig is one of the inspired ones. She turned the armored Japanese warrior princesses vision of Aya Takano(, the manga artist) into clothings for her fall collection and showed them in Paris Fashion Week last February. The clothes gave the image of [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 21st, 2008
Yohji Yamamoto’s Hermes Bag
Talking about The Yamamotos, Yohji now :) Beside his Y-3 catwalk show in New York, and his fashion show in Beijing on April, Yohji Yamamoto, also collaborated with Hermes, creating a new signature bag for the French fashion house. This bag was firstly showed in Paris Fashion Week, together with his Fall 2008 collection. It features Yohji’s [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 11th, 2008
Limi Yamamoto, Like Father, Like Daughter
Everyone knows Yohji Yamamoto, but not the fact that he’s got a daughter who wanted to play bass guitar in a rock band then ends up in Paris with her own label, Limi Feu. Limi Yamamoto presented reflection of new Japanese aesthetics as in Japanese women, with more common body types, none like usual model parade, [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 8th, 2008
Asian Designers in Berlin
I just read a good news from Berlin. The 6th Asia-Pacific Weeks Berlin 2007 will be held from September 10th to September 23rd. Within the APW, a three day event (scheduled for September, 21-23) named “InFashion” will present mutual influences of Asian and Berlin fashion designers by means of workshops, symposia and fashion shows. The [...]— qaris • May 21st, 2007
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