TREND

POST BLACK COLOR

There are a lot of people who wear the black whether should say a black whirlwind in Tokyo. The refined color image is strong. There will be a time lag (gap of time) by the difference from the age that reacted as soon as the magazine and media take it up, and the fashion. It gradually takes time. It came to see "Bootee" that the magazine fussed over at the early autumn at this late date.

MARKET OF FEMALE HIGH RANK

Original album "Kingdom" of the sixth piece of Kumi Koda was put on the market. It is said that it expressed it by a style original from colorful pop music to a powerful lock sound and R&B. The power of the Kansai valve complete recovery is alive and well.

CUTY BIKER STYLE

Girls of Biker style and Locker style to wear rider's jacket of leather with dress and skirt has increased. The item of mens type such as Army style that puts on Mod's coat and Military style of the brass button coat continues. Matching of functional hard item and femine items invites the play mind.

ZEBRA AND CAMOUFLAGE

Zebra and camouflage is coexistent. Zebra patern that black and white is refreshing is seem this year to use not only the dress but also the bag and shoes. Monochrome cow patern like the drop of water of Holstein cow etc. are popular.Does the woman like animal patern including leopard patern.Moreover, there are a lot of noble, dignified animals.

IFF AND TERROIR HOLDING

In the newspaper to which the people related to fashion and apparel are subscribing, there is newspaper "SENKEN SHINBUN". The newspaper is and the sponsored exhibition has "IFF" and "TERROIR" of import twice a year of the summer of the spring of every year and the winter of autumn. It is said that it participated from 19 to 800 companies or more this year of the 17th times done from the 23rd to the 25th. The bags, shoes, accessaries, goods, and kids pats queued up from apparel when it was narrow, and buyers of the whole country had a business talk with the hall.

CHIFFON SKIRTS

The woman who is sweeping the skirt of chiffon with a thin transparent feeling already is seen. The cloth like chiffon that seems to be transparent that which is transparent, and transparent is called transparent. It is a material that feels the spring. It is mysterious because it looks lovely that there is an unexpectedness when combining with the material and the muffler in wool and thick winter.

BOOTS

The on parade of boots that seems to be warm because of boots "UGG" popularity of the sheepskin of the Merino sheepskin of Australia. The rival and the this industry other companies follow by the hot seller and the birth of the hot-selling product. The result and the market are activated.

TOKYO ARTIST MANSION

It is mysterious that the art doesn't synchronize with the business either. "TOKYO ARTIST MANSION" that gets rid of such the inconvenient world, and sells unique artist goods such as the bag by handmade of the artist, tablier, T-shirt, miscellaneous goods, the handkerchief, slippers, and clocks has been held in Shibuya Parco until January 28. Mr. "Kodue Hibino" etc. who keep making an original costume in an aspect different from Fashion desgner participate.

LIKE THE GARAGE

I like space like the garage. The space that seemingly looks useless lacks and sets up creativity. The legend of Mr. Steve Jobs of Apple Computer Inc. that revives the company by only two people in the garage is recalled. It is heard that there are a lot of enterprises that started from other garages such as google and amazone. The drama "Edison's mother" where the grapple of the school child who has the talent of average Thomas Alva Edison and the teacher who strives hard is drawn with comedy drama seems also to depict those who drop out and success person's loophole.

VINTAGE CLOTH

Floral print prints such as antique rose was established of "Cath Kidston" of having started from sales of used furniture and the vintage cloth with Notting Hill of Britain in 1993 as brand of the feature. I think to be usual Britain house.

LIGHT AND LARGE BAG

The fashion of editors bags that stores it easily including the document and miscellaneous goods seems to be becoming light and large bags, too. For modern people with a lot of documents of large-scale Shoulder bag, it is indispensable itme. Delicate party bags like Clutch bag is paid to attention on the other hand. Boston bag of a lovely design seems to become trend this summer, too.

DESIGN OF KAWAII SENT TO THE WORLD

A design of "SALE" of Shop window was dancing lovely.The designs of sale snd bargain decorates the town.Spring comes soon. Loveliness was five of FRAPBOIS, n°11, THEATRE PRODUCTS, Lamp harajuku, and sunaokuwahara in the feature of "Design of Kawaii sent to the world" of Fashion Magazine"FUDGE" Brands was taken up.

BASIC AT GOOD OLD DAYS

Jeans brand "OMNIGOT" is called it is a concept that a basic, functional dress making in an old, good age is followed, and adults taste it by a modern style. When can it stick to, and it enjoy living, I think that it is a desire. It is because there is "Person" who is the creator in the basis.

ENCLOSED BY FASHIONABLE GOODS

Boutique "NOJESS" is a feature to use lacy exterior."NOJESS" is developed from accessories to rings, shoes, bags, and the wristwatch of high-level, fashionable related to wide dress goods.Because an original dress has been treated, ease for the girl to have the dream can be tasted.

SHARING OF SENSE OF VALUES

After opening the first shop to Ginza, coffee shop "TULLY'S COFFEE" from Seattle opened a store on a Japanese inside with surprising swiftness. A city and fashionable coffee shop became famous around a young woman, and was established. Of course, "Starbucks Coffee" from Seattle cuts the van, it is popular from the introduction and the takeout of the inside of a store no smoking system, and has made cafe boom.

THE WORLD OF COMEDY

Miss Kanako Yanagihara of the comedian who performs the ecology of the high school girl of the retreat the charisma clerk and now in the round is a popular person who performs to a lot of CM. The comedy technical journal was discovered in the waiting room in the hospital the other day. The young man artist was introduced to the magazine "Comedy Popolo" like the idol magazine, and the fan created and was surprised by thickness.

THE BOY STYLE

The Outer of the brass button and the metal button has increased by the influences such as Trad style and Preppy. It revives as the boy style style that magazine "OLIVE" proposed has freshness before. The trend come spiral from the past to present.

SEIJIN SHIKI

In japan, today is Seijin shiki (The Coming-of-Age ceremony) .I hear that this year's new adult is 1.35 million people (690,000 men and 660,000 females) in the whole country according to Goverment. It is said that Furisode of a glossy party appearance at the initiation is best clothes of the full dress of a single woman. Man's Japanese clothes appearance has increased, too. In the formal dress of man's Japanese clothes, the Hakama bearing crest haori coat is a kitchen range. It is said that the rental defaults and it is naturally advanced that much.

SAVING MODE

The stole and the muffler of the large size are rolled and the number of a guess so and walking woman has increased. It is the excellent one that becomes a rug as it is in the office. It is a saving mode according to the sudden rise of the oil price. It is not easy to actually move though clothes are worn and it is called Warm Biz campaign.

MUSIC AND FASHION

I hear that the lock is a birth by 1950's. It is unexpectedly new. Beatles that appeared in 1962 made a new sound and the fashion known from Liverpool in Britain and the lock was made known and all over the world. Young people of a baby boom generation at that time it was easy to have influenced like the religion. 60 years old has already been exceeded. Still, the lock spirit remains.

NEW IMAGE

Actress's Aoi Miyazaki will become the model of Emporio Armani for japan. She was performing her usual Signorina by movie "NANA". A fresh, fashionably high, active in first line point was evaluated to her high. The reason for the actress is that being appointed more than the model is preeminent eminence, and is excellent in the responsive capability in the commercial.

FOREIGN COMPANY AND JAPAN

Recently, a white foreigner is seen. The foreign company in Japan also is increased rapidly. It is said, it is "A corporate number of foreign companies in Japan is 4,276 companies in fiscal year 2005, and the number of employers is 1.02 million people" according to JETRO. When the individual such as lecturers of the model and English conversation who is acting also includes it, it feels it a lot.

ENJOYING KNIT OUT

I becomes warm like enjoying sincerely liking knit to see back figure of couple. Tere were a lady to wear Cable knitting and a man to wear Jacquard knit of snow patern.It gathers in the park and the Main Street, etc. and the event that enjoys hand-knitted, and announces the knit work is called "KNIT OUT.

JAPAN CASUAL

　Yamakaji（mountain casual) is popular in tokyo.There are key word about "emi casual" and "coco casual" in fashion magazine "PINKY". The both words were from name of model.Emi suzuki and Coco kinoshita.

BETTIE PAGE

It served as the model with the nude and Bontage fastion against the age named the United States of 1950's, and Betty Page that had become popular became a movie. It seemed to have been a woman who made the genre of the pinup girl who exceeded it in 1920's though said that the burlesque with amorousness was popular.

FAMILY INTENTION

There was pleasing illustration where children were walking hand in hand at flagshop of French outdoor brand "AIGLE" in shibuya."AIGLE" is a brand that values the family. In France, after Mr. and Mrs. Millay who was bag workman establishes company of bag made of cloth in Lyons City suburbs in 1921, popular "MILLET" among mountain climber...

EARLY SPRING

White coordinate that seems to be Early spring is dazzled. Bargain sale is already begun, and winter clothing is swept away. A bright amorous glance is paid to attention, and autumnal tints are kept at a distance. I want to be beautifully like the blue sky that it clears completely even where in January. It is freshness of "Spring scenery" that Ohyama Yurika sings and light feeling.

ADULT LIKE A BOY

Peter Pan that flies bravely over the sky by mischievous losted in Kensington Gardens of London when it is young. And then Peter Pan strayed off mysterious world "neverland".He was a symbol of an eternal child who did not want to grow up.The word of psychology named Peter Pan Syndrome was born, too.

POPULARITY OF LEOPARD PATTERN

The number of women who wear the dress of leopard pattern increases when winter
comes. It often uses it for the dress of animal pattern such as zebra pattern and cow pattern though it is called leopard pattern. In Animal pattern, I think that the primitive sense and the ethnic sense do mix. A wild sensibility has been revived though it is unconscious in the contemporary society.

ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY STYLE

Mixed fashion with item and style are said Yamakaji(mountain casual) mountain Cage to a climbing mountain feminine of the outdoor system that goes. It infiltrates more, and the individuality target of lifestyle advances to a free style not conventional in the young person in the falling birthrate even if it is not so. On the other hand, the differentiation and making to the attribute advance.

KANZASHI

There is Kanzashi of hair accessory that keeps defending the tradition of Japan. "Kanzashi-ya" of the specialty store is suitable for the new year. It is according to dictionary , saying that "The woman who makes it from the metal, the bamboo, the ivory, and counts in the hair and the decoration to make it do counts to the hair with Kanzashi(hair pin)". The thing to succeed to the culture of harmony now is difficult.