While Paris, the capital of world's fashion tends to give less, Tokyo seems very fearless to give more. They have the designers who create wearable, saleable pieces and the designer who create something unbelievable and avant-garde either. With the unique aesthetic and superior technique, Takashi Nishiyama made not only the Tokyo Fashion loving citizens but also the world famous designers such as Viktor&Rolf, John Galliano surprised.
Born in 1987, Takashi Nishiyama studied in two most famous fashion school in Japan. He learned techniques in fashion at Bunka Fukushoku Gakuin and at Coconogacco, he learned to design. The collection he shown in Tokyo Fashion Week in Oct/2010 won the award International Talent Support ITS fashion contest which the judges included Viktor&Rolf, John Galliano, Nina Nitsche from Maison Margiela... He was the first Japanese designer who won the award.
The collection was incredible, phenomenal, and spectarcular! Inspired by the Japanese TV game Monster Hunter in which the players hunt monster for weapons. Now you have the idea: Savage, Heroic, Monstrous. Let's picture one day, Rick Owens, Viktor&Rolf, John Galliano, and Yohji Yamamoto had a private meet to create a collection, Takashi Nishiyama's was the right one. The outerwears are extremely HUGE, multi-layered, unfinished, heavy with leather, fur cover the models from head to toe, make them look like strange creatures or some homeless guys on the street who grab everything to wear. Do they make you imagine a dark forest or a snow mountain where the monster hunting begins? I do feel it.
The winning collection
Fall/winter 2011
Spring 2013
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