Japan topped the apparel value table by adding one brand
Brand Finance says Japanese apparel brand value rose 29% to $13bn. Uniqlo and Asics are the entire figure, and Asics is a new entrant.
Paris has twelve Japanese houses this week
Nine Japanese labels have runway slots at Paris Fashion Week this week. Korea has two presentations and nothing on a catwalk.
Tokyo bought two ex-Uniqlo designers a Paris runway
The Fashion Prize of Tokyo will fund two Paris runway shows for TANAKA, the denim label built by Uniqlo's former global design leads.
Tokyo's answer to its designer problem is to back the factories
The Tokyo Fashion Award named eight winners on Saturday, two of them sewing factories, weeks after a sister award found no finalist good enough.