FRANCE: Japanese designer and fashion house display their collection at this year's Paris Fashion Week

Record ID: 231041

  • Title: FRANCE: Japanese designer and fashion house display their collection at this year's Paris Fashion Week
  • Date: 2nd March 2008
  • Summary: (BN15) PARIS, FRANCE (FEBRUARY 26, 2008) (REUTERS) CATWALK SHOW BEGINS MODEL WEARING SHORT BLACK JACKET OVER COLOURFUL SHIRT AND SKIRT MODEL WEARING BLUE COAT OVER TURQUOISE DRESS MODEL WEARING COLOURFUL SILVER SHINY DRESS MODEL WEARING YELLOW/BLUE COLOURFUL COAT MODEL WEARING MUSTARD COAT OVER PINK DRESS MODEL WEARING BROWN ANIMAL-PRINT DRESS MODEL WEARING COLOURFUL DRESS AUDIENCE APPLAUDING ALL MODELS ON CATWALK TSUMORI CHISATO ON CATWALK
  • Embargoed: 17th March 2008 12:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Fashion
  • Reuters ID: LVA14HE0BUD657XVSZLRP95HA4H6
  • Story Text: Japanese designer Tsumori Chisato started showing in Paris in 2003 and has since made the French capital her fashion home. Her 2008 autumn/winter collection featured on Monday (February 25) takes its inspiration from another European capital: Vienna.
    Chisato explains that the idea for the collection came when she went to a flee market in the Austrian capital and acquired a book with art nouveau , and photos of the City.

    "My inspiration for the collection comes from Vienna and books that I bought in Vienna with advertisements and photos from the city,"
    she said before the show.
    The collection is full of colours with sometimes extravagant designs, silky and soft materials.
    Chisato started her own collection in 1990 and held her first fashion show in Tokyo. She chose Paris as the destination for her first free-standing shop outside Japan.
    She said that showing at Paris Fashion Week has a world-wide appeal, but it's the way that she was brought up that makes her unique.

    "What makes you original is the way in which you're raised. I was born and brought up in Japan so my influence is very Japanese.
    Chisato's work has been greatly recognized over the years and she received the prestigious "Mainichi Award" in 2002.
    Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake also took its show - Life, Death and Love - to the Paris catwalk on Tuesday (February 26).
    Fittingly set in Paris's "Museum of Man", the show started with a boy on a bicycle meeting a girl and ended with birdsong.
    Asked about the continuing size-zero debate with some models being very thin, designer Dai Fujiwara said that since he opted for very fine material for this collection, he needed a thin body to show it and wear it.

    "We want to do this with the new material and for this we need the body to present the clothes and the material," he said.
    Fujiwara also said the theme was also an ecological one, suggesting that men and women ought to look after the planet more.
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