Japanese fashion design
Most Japanese fashion houses are in Tokyo. The Japanese look is funky, loose and unstructured (often resulting from complicated cutting), colours tend to the sombre and subtle, and richly textured fabrics. Famous Japanese designers are Yohji Yamaoto, Kenzo, Issey Miyake(masterful drape and cut), and Comme des Garcons’s Rei Kawakubo who developed a new way of cutting (comparable to Madeline Vionnet;s innovation in the 1930s).
Recent Japanese designers :
By Yama Koshino
Photo source: JFW/Tyo
Norio Surikabe, the man behind Support Surface label, worked for more than 10 years with Italian fashion houses (Romeo Gigli, NN Studio, Alberto Biani, Trussardi) as an assistant, then chief designer and design consultant. In 1999 he started his own label, Support Surface, offering high quality clothing which allows women to be true to themselves.
In 2003 he won the prestigious Kuwasawa Award prize, smoothing the labels' path to success as it has every chance of becoming an international brand. Every Support Surface collection, the spring 2009 line most of all, exudes the elegance of classical sportswear mixed with beautiful, soft fabrics and a impeccable flair for draping, folding and pleating.
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