娱乐英语新闻:Fashion week comes to Tokyo

TOKYO, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Japan's bi-annual fashion week concluded its ninth season on Monday, with a hodgepodge of more than 50 up-and-coming and more established brands and designers, all showcasing their unique, creative percipience for "must-buys" when their Spring/Summer collections hit boutiques and stores around the world next year.

    Hoards of fashionist as flocked to Tokyo's Midtown area between Oct. 19 and 25 to check out what Tokyo's fashion guru's have in store for them when heavy wintry layers will give way to lighter, brighter garbs, as the mercury starts to rise next spring.

A model displays a creation by Japanese designer Aya Furuhashi at a fashion show during Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo October 19, 2009

Tokyo-based Designer Junya Tashiro, a self-taught 'new-kid-on-the-block' in the world of fashion, treated his audience to a collection comprised of virginal-white, cotton, ruffled, knee-length skirts and dresses, worn with white and silver, silk jackets -- sharply cut to accentuate figures and create poise.

    One stunning three-quarter length, eggshell-white jacket was finished off delightfully with gold-pockets and double buttons set at chest level, giving the piece a "bespoke" look, yet allowing the jacket to flow and create motion -- simple, utterly chic and a testament to this young designer's ability to fuse cutting-edge fashion, with form, function, grace and elegance. Junya Tashiro will be a name to watch out for in the years to come.

    Women's Designer Aguri Sagimori took a different tack to Tashiro, completely opposite in fact -- the 24-year old enigma's collection seemed to suggest that black is, once again, the "new black".

    Sagimori, having graduated from the Vantan Design Institute and at her tender age winning both the Prize for Excellence at the New Designer Fashion Grand Prix and the Nagoya Fashion Grand prix CONTEST in 2007, is both talented, relevant and unabashed about her mildly androgynous, single-hued, tailored offerings for S/S 2010.

    Single-clasps held jet-black, V-necked, sleeveless jackets together and were coupled with simple, silk boot-cut pants that hung low on the hips, which made for an urban 'biker-girl' look -- minimal, fluid and edgy.

A model presents a creation by Japanese designer Tamae Hirokawa at SOMARTA's fashion show during Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo October 20, 2009

Other pieces from Sagimori included a stunning inky top, which was sheer in places to reveal flesh and solid in others. This piece, that could be worn alone as a dress, clung at the knees one side and mid-thigh the other -- slants and diagonal cuts were quite obviously the direction Sagimori was going with this wonder-piece. The collar was raised on the right and plunged to the left shoulder, in another example of the designer's use of angles. This piece was worn over glistening black pants and boots with silver embellishments.

    Men's and Women's designer Ato Matsumoto established his own brand, ato, in 1993 and opened the brand's flagship store in Tokyo's fashion-central Minami Aoyama district. Matsumoto presented in Paris for the first time in 2000 and 2003 saw his first women's collection.

    At JFW ato presented the audience with an ensemble of models dressed like the cast of 'Fame' -- the original 80's TV series, not the movie remake released this year.