In an attempt to nurture young designers and make Tokyo a fashion hub, the city has decided to hold a competition for high school and university students with world-famous fashion designers as judges.
The capital is working to make Tokyo a fashion hub alongside Paris, Milan and New York, and has decided to hold a competition to nurture young designers who are active in the world.
The target is high school students, vocational school students, and college students who live or are in Tokyo, and will compete in the fall and winter of next year.
The recruitment of design drawings has already started, and we are accepting them until the end of September.
After passing the document screening, we will actually make clothes with advice from pattern makers and commercialization professionals, and in March next year, we will conduct a final screening in a fashion show format, and also worldwide. Fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto will also participate as a special judge.
It also means that we will set up a department specializing in functional and fashionable works to meet the needs of people with disabilities.
At a press conference, Governor Koike said, "Fashion is a culture and a transmission itself, and it is necessary to strengthen it from both an industrial and cultural point of view. Discover and train student designers who are active on the world stage. I will go. "