Tokyo Fashion Week, which will be held from March 14 to 19, 2022, at the main venues of Shibuya Hikarie and Omotesando Hills, along with other original venues chosen by individual brands, will be the first in two years to present a larger number of physical shows than digital presentations. A total of 54 brands (30 brands giving physical presentations/24 brands giving digital presentations includes 17 first-time participants), including two brands (Toga and Tomo Koizumi) presenting through “by R”, the program supporting Japanese brands, sponsored by the Rakuten Group, Inc., will be participating in the Tokyo Fashion Week 2022 AW season, hosted by the JFWO-the Japan Fashion Week Organization.
The Agency of Cultural Affairs of the Japanese government will support the first-ever runway show by Blackmeans, the brand designed by Yujiro Komatsu and Masatomo Agari. Instead, the brand Bed J.W. Ford will be supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and it will present a digital presentation utilizing the 4D Volumetix filming technology of Crescent, a type of technology which captures human movements from a free viewpoint and documents into film.
In addition, during the upcoming Tokyo Fashion Week, the “Tokyo Fashion Award”, sponsored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and JFWO, will be hosting the “Tokyo Fashion Award 2022 Winnersʼ Event”, of the 8 award-winning brands of the 7th Award. Furthermore, CFCL, the award-winning brand of the 4th “Fashion Prize Of Tokyo”, a fashion prize project to promote the production of fashion designers with the potential to be globally active, presented its 2022 AW collection through a digital presentation on the occasion of Paris Fashion Week 2022 AW, and also will be presenting the collection during Tokyo Fashion Week 2022 AW.
Here is the full list of the eight award-winning designers of Tokyo Fashion Award 2022:
Rikuya Hayashi (SUGARHILL), Dairiku Okamoto (DAIRIKU), Hiroaki Sueyasu (KIDILL), Norio Terada (YOKE), Eriko Ishida & Aki Shimizu (Malion vintage), Ryota Murakami (Pillings), Harunobu Murata (Harunobumurata), Mari Odaka (Malamute）
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CFCL by Yusuke Takahashi, the 2022 Fashion Prize of Tokyo winner shows during Paris Fashion Week
Courtesy image of JFWO
