Top Japanese Designers at Paris Fashion Week

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Famous Japanese designers, Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto present their spring/summer 2009 collections at the Paris Fashion Week. Lets take a look.

STORY:
Born of a "colour hunting" expedition into the Amazon rain forest, Issey Miyake's ready-to-wear collection fell gently on Paris Fashion Week like warm tropical rain.

Miyake and his design team carried 3,000 color samples into the Amazon. They went there to explore the natural colors of the jungle and extracted eight primary colors that are now part of the new collection.

[Issey Miyake, Fashion Designer]:
"We need real materials and real colors, instead of taking things from magazines or Web sites. Nowadays there is so much diversity in this world, but I think we need to get the real things in this way."

From simple knee-length dresses to bikini combinations topped with sheer over shirts, to light dresses in a variety of styles, the new Miyake collection captures the colors and movements of the tropical forest.

Designer, Yohji Yamamotos presented his new collection in two segments: A series of dark, elegant dresses and ensembles with subtle patterns, paired with flat-soled sneakers, and then flowing white and ivory garments.

The simplicity of the garments, the stately pace of the models, and the soothing music all combined to create a rare sense of tranquility at the show.

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[mukeshpatelisaasshol]

the guy is not real Issey Miyake...

[csf969]

Well, clearly you don't understand the complexity, integrity and conceptualism of the more avant-garde designers. It's important to remember that (a) most of what you see on a runway is then sold as separates that are far easier to wear and (b) that for any TRUE designer it's not about putting a 'name on a normal shirt' and making money.

But, fashion isn't for everyone - it's fine if you don't like it, but don't show your ignorance by calling it 'retarded and goofy'.

It's just not for you.

[bisaf11]

Which idiot dresses up like this.

[Rab1975bit]

That's Dai Fujiwara the designer, NOT Issey Miyake himself!!! Did these reporter people actaully think he was Miyake???

[artfullywrapped]

Stunning styles; always artful and etherial while dramatic and filled with movement. Thanks for posting this!

[animefan320]

Yeah that's what I think too. For me fashion is interesting because they show what else clothes can be used for other than well, clothing ourselves. it can be a form of art which expresses what we think and feel, it pushes boundaries and since I think it's a form of art, obviously you can't where them in everyday life.

[melisandra20]

Its about creating art, expressing their creativity through clothes. Im sure they could design for the everyday person and make something conventionally "pretty" but thats not what they're about! How boring would that be anyway

[RussiangirlNY]

Fashion, like money becomes a form of social currency-people get secluded if they cant afford to look a certain way in that sense it is evil

[RussiangirlNY]

i think what he was trying to say is that most of what is on the runway is not relevant to wear in a persons every day life. In my opinion fashion is a form of elitism. only a few people in the world can truly afford to deck themselves out in louis vituone and christian lacroix and the rest of us start chasing this abstract concept of having the "latest " bag or the latest scarf. It becomes truly absurd.

[stephensamperi]

whats the point of these fashion shows, everything they make looks retarded and even the gaudiest women dont wear that goofy crap. the designers make all their money by putting their name on normal shirts and selling those alphabet looking purses...no style, just marketing

so, what's the point?