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The Top 20 Money-Making Fashion Weeks You May Not Know

London - The fact that New York Fashion Week, set to bring in a total income of 540 million euros this season, generates the most money from all the global fashion weeks may not be a surprise to many fashion insiders. Afterall, it is the fashion week that opens the international tour of the four leading fashion weeks: New York, London, Milan and...

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Tokyo Fashion Week celebrates Japanese subcultures

The Marc Jacobs of Japan, singing cats and models cloaked into armour: J-pop and science fiction transformed Tokyo Fashion Week spring/summer 2017 into a style fest unlike any other. In a world where fashion mines entertainment like never before, Japan's established and break-through labels pounced on musical hook-ups, street culture and...

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"Fashion is not only for people in Tokyo"

Okinawa, the Japanese archipelago home to thousands of US troops and popular with scuba divers, is looking beyond its beach resorts and World War II battle sites to bag a spot in high fashion. A two and a half hour flight from Tokyo and closer to Taiwan, Okinawa couldn't be more different from the Japanese capital, where the fashion set reach...

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Former leper takes to Tokyo runway to fight stigma

At 83 Miyo Maki had never manicured her nails,thickened and deformed due to leprosy, a disease she was diagnosed with when she was just 10 years old. But on Wednesday, as she marked her birthday, the former leprosy patient proudly displayed her shiny artificial nails, applied by a manicurist, ahead of a catwalk appearance at the ongoing Tokyo...

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Tokyo Fashion Week: Fashion's next Frontier?

Tokyo may be the style capital of Asia, but with South Korea and China snapping at its heels and Japan's most iconic brands rooted in Europe, the city is being urged to haul its fashion week into the big leagues. Amazon Tokyo Fashion Week kicked off its spring/summer 2017 season showcase on Monday with six days of events intended to promote 50...

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Koche stops traffic with outdoor Tokyo catwalk show

French label Koche made its Japan Fashion Week debut Wednesday, transforming part of Tokyo's famed Harajuku district into a catwalk -- stopping traffic to unveil street cool with a French twist. Paris-based designer Christelle Kocher brought her two-year old fashion house to the heart of Japanese youth culture, taking over a street lined with...

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Umit Benan sticks it to Trump on Tokyo runway

Embattled Donald Trump got two fingers from the most unlikely of places Tuesday -- the Tokyo catwalk at a fashion show inspired by his bete noire: the working Mexican in Texas. Umit Benan, the Turkish designer born in Germany, educated in Switzerland and based in Milan, made his debut at Japan Fashion Week by transforming an Asian city runway...

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It's raining kimonos in Tokyo at Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo

It's raining kimonos in Tokyo. US-based Japanese heavy-metal superstar Yoshiki kicked off Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo by sending models down the runway in sexy, reimagined kimonos drenched in a downpour Monday. It may not be high fashion to purists, but such is the fame of the dyed-blonde, androgynous-looking co-founder of rock band X Japan that...

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Amazon to sponsor Tokyo Fashion Week

Tokyo Fashion Week, the biggest fashion festival of Japan, has a new headline sponsor, Amazon Japan, replacing Mercedes-Benz who have supported the event for 10 seasons. The online retailer has signed a “multiyear” deal to sponsor the Tokyo shows, the full duration of which has not been disclosed, along with the financial details of the...