- Title: JAPAN: FASHION SHOWS AUTUMN AND WINTER FASHIONS
- Date: 7th April 2004
- Summary: MODEL WALKING IN RED PULLOVER AND RED AND WHITE GINGHAM CHEQUERED PANTS WITH COWBOY STYLE MODEL WALKING IN ORANGE FLARED SKIRT AND POLKA-DOTS OF WHITE AND BROWN AND COVERING HEAD AND NECK WITH ORANGE SCARVE TROUSERS WITH FLOWER PATTERN WORN WITH RED CHEQUERED JACKET AND RED AND WHITE AND RED GINGHAM CHEQUERED SHIRT MODEL WALKING IN GOLDEN TROUSERS WORN WITH PLEATED BEIGE JACKET AND WHITE AND BROWN GINGHAM CHEQUERED SHIRT MODEL WALKING IN WHITE LACED TROUSERS AND WHITE SHIRT WITH BIG COLLAR WORN WITH BLACK JACKET MODEL WALKING IN TROUSERS WITH HIBISCUS PATTERN AND BLACK JACKET
- Embargoed: 22nd April 2004 13:00
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- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
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- Country: Japan
- Topics: Entertainment,Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
- Reuters ID: LVACAA8X40JG3FFUMH13Y98PSB1V
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- Story Text: Japanese fashion designers showcase their Fall/Winter '04-'05 collection in Tokyo.
Tokyo's catwalks are busy this week as the nation kicks off its major fashion collection shows.
Over fifty designers have models on catwalks strutting their stuff for buyers and fashionistas in myriad venues across the city.
Yasuko Furuta's "Metal Core Fantasy" Autumn/Winter 2004-2005 collection has the press talking as it slithers pasts a packed room that normally serves as the mixed zone of the National Soccer Stadium in Tokyo.
Models with deep red lipstick and black rouge and teeth coated with gold, flitted down the catwalk in a ghostly procession of red knit jackets, wool dresses, corsets and red thick tights of the fashion brand Toga.
A glittering finale of shiny metallic evening dresses brought the collection to a showstopping end.
Eri Utsugi, fashion designer for Frapbois, unveiled her latest collection inspired by Tokyo's growing street fashion.
"I got inspiration by people walking on the street. I usually get inspiration from very ordinary people on the streets," Utsugi said.
Her colourful range of cowboy outfits were played off models in red pullovers and gingham chequered pants.
And for the men - golden trousers worn under a pleated beige cape.
In evening wear Utsugi suggested laced trousers and big collared white shirts under black jackets.
Similarly 'Triptych' designer Harumi Fukuda, who started her career selling clothes at a popular fashion boutique in Tokyo, chose to set her collection in a film studio.
"When I used to managed a shop, and buy clothes for the shop, I used to think about the customers all the time. As I started with street fashion, I can never get away from it. But this time I tried to create comfortable and natural clothes for the collection," said Fukuda.
Fukuda's crisp cut creations included black thick wool short dresses, and short brown jackets worn with with leather accessories and knee pad - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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