The Japan Fashion Week Organization (JFWO) celebrates its twenty year anniversary with the spring/summer season 2026. This also includes a future -oriented edition of the Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo (FWT).
This season, both the visual topic of the Fashion Week, ‘the future does not arise from nowhere’, as well as the overall topic, ‘is the seam that connects the world’, honor the twenty -year history of the organization and at the same time “look at the future,” says a press release. From 1st to 6th September, the FWT will present twenty-three brands in twenty designers: Interior shows and three partnership shows among the participating brands are five newcomers and five international brands.
A highlight of the program is the ‘by R’ event of the Fashion Week, an initiative by the main sponsor Rakuten. It is intended to participate in the event of international or successful local designers: inside the event. This year Fetico, Emi Funayama’s label, was selected as a headliner brand. It is the seventh show as part of the FWT, just five years after the label was founded. Fetico is lined up in the ranks of the former ‘by R’ participants: inside like Bape, Paul Smith and Marimekko.
The aspiring brands Mukcyen and Jun.y take part as part of the JFWO brand promotion program, the JFW Next Brand Award. The former was awarded the Grand Prix, which enables designer Yuka Kimura to organize the brand’s first runway show. The latter received the special prize.
Return to a completely physical program with clearer categories
In order to adapt to the changing model landscape, the JFWO has shifted its focus, like the entire industry, to physical presentations and completely removed digital content from the program. This also introduces clearer categories. The importance of the individual types of views is to be illustrated and the role of the JFWO as the organizer of the Fashion Week is consolidated.
Solo-runway shows by individual brands are called ‘Official Designer Show’ and form the core of the event. ‘Partnership shows’ are looking at national organizations or shown as part of partner events. Looking that present students or school organizations continues to run under the title ‘Incubation Shows’ as part of the dating program of the Fashion Week.
The JFWO was founded in 2005 under the name Fashion Strategy Forum. The aim was to create a platform to present the inheritance of the designers: inside the following years. Over time, the organization has launched various funding programs, initiatives and partnerships with global organizations to strengthen their presence in the international fashion calendar.
The successes include the extraction of racers as the main sponsor, partnerships with the European trade fairs Pitti Uomo and Tranoï as well as the introduction of funding initiatives such as the Tokyo Fashion Award, which supports emerging talents.
The JFWO wants to continue to work for the Japanese textile industry and fashion scene. This should also be a driving force of their work in the future. “This autumn we celebrate our twenty -year existence and set up a new chapter with new passion and determination,” said the organization.
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