The Tokyo Collection was first started by raising a tent in Yoyogi Park in 1985 in conjunction with the inauguration of the Council of Fashion Designer's Tokyo. At that time, it was held for a short period with a collective participation of designers. However, that form of the Tokyo Collection was terminated in 1991. After that, a show was held for each designer and for each apparel manufacturer and as a result, the period of the collection in Tokyo became more than 40 days.Last year (2005) was the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Council of Fashion Designer's Tokyo and people put much effort in innovating the Tokyo Collection. In addition, not only the so-called 4 Big Collections (New York, London, Milan and Paris), but also collections in the form of fashion week in various cities and countries began to be held in places such as Singapore, Los Angeles, Australia, India, Dubai and Moscow. Then we thought, “Let’s revive the original Tokyo Collection in Japan focusing around Tokyo.” For this purpose, we thought, let’s make it a Collection Week, the world trendline (where many designers will intensively participate from morning till night for about a week), then we held the first Japan Fashion Week from the end of October till November last year.”
Although the Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo was started in a new form, I think it links to the Tokyo Collection from 1985 when we track its origin.







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