The promising new comer designers and domestically and nternationally playing active part expert designers were so far done in JOURNEY.
Masatomo Naka who is Founder had lived for one year, belonged to the university in Japan. Then, he exported used clothing to the used clothing shops and the vintage shops in Osaka by the singleness while he lived in Canada and he studied the experiencing of a buyer uniquely.
After that, he established the import trade company of the used clothing jointly while he was the university student.
Then, he established branch in L.A. He went out to the sales in various parts of Japan, got to deal with about 100 shops within 7 years and he saw a lot of used clothing as much as not being in the counting in the wide period in America as the buyer.
After that, The Company has managed about 23 stores of apparel store of a wide range of business statuses including the selection shop of the men's, but he demanded the realization of the new dream and transferred a company to the partner.
By the way, he moved an arena to Tokyo in April, 2004, gathered a men's brand in Japan around October of same year by 7 companies and it hosted the first exhibition.
It expanded the scale of the exhibition which was hosted from April, 2006 and in the 6th last time, 34 brands ( the Japanese 29 brands, the European 4 brands and the Mexican 1 brand) were collected from the apparel to the fashion sundries.
At present, the brands in Japan has the design power which is equal to the world level sufficiently.
Then, the level of material and the sewing technology which makes them a product, too, are the world top level.
Therefore, the shops in the world which seeks new one pay attention to the creators in Japan.
The previous new dream is to do the combined exhibition of the international men's in Japan.
Then, we find new creators in Japan, we have a purpose of making the place where the Japanese brand plays an active part overseas.
Once by all means come and visit JOURNEY which gathered creators in Japan which has influence for the men's fashion industry in the future.
Also, it plans to host JOURNEY (only the Japanese brand) at Paris in France in January, 2008.
In the future, it is planning the combined exhibition to introduce a European brands to in extremely charming Japan, too.