Day 2: The Dress and Co., Aguri Sagimori and G.V.G.V.

The Dress and Co. Hideaki Sakaguchi

Hideaki Sakaguchi graduated with a degree in interior design from Hosei University. He worked at Designers' Maison before starting JELLY GARCIA in 2002 which he renamed as The Dress and Co. HIDEAKI SAKAGUCHI from '09-'10 A/W. Last year he presented his collection at RENDEZ-VOUS, Paris and he has now started to receive orders from stores worldwide! Visit his website here for more information.

I was excited to see what Sakaguchi would do this year! You can see my write up about his collection from last season here. There was a variety of pieces that were very appealing. There were ruffles, jean vests, great blazers and layers upon layers. There were also some great kaki and cord blazers and suits that would work well for office wear in the spring. The make-up was simple and the hair was parted and pulled back. As you can see from the images below, each piece is immaculately designed with incredible attention to detail.

Layers, layers, layers!
Always popular in Japan.

The models walked along a tile
runway.

This look flowed elegantly
down the runway.


Aguri Sagimori

Aguri Sagimori graduated from Vantan Design Institute in 2007. She has won numerous awards including the New Designer Fashion Grand Prix (2007) and the Nagoya Fashion Grand Prix Contest (2007). She showed her first collection at Tokyo Collection Week in March 2008.

After doing some shopping and having a fantastic Indian dinner, we rushed to line up for the Aguri Sagimori show. The line up was very long but we managed to get in and get a good seat about three rows back. You could sense the excitement and anticipation in the audience for this show. Finally, after getting everyone seated, the show began.

The models flew down the runway wearing rhinestones, studs, chains and silver make-up. There were some great trench coats, harem pants and shorts. The sheer fabric and black lace hard edged trends were continued here. One of the designs that stood out the most for this collection was the vests. They barely covered the back. They came just around the point of the shoulder blades. She designed them in a variety of colors and I wanted to wear every one of them!

An amazing purse.

Cool silver vest.

Love this body suit.


G.V.G.V.

MUG graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School and launched G.V.G.V. in 1999. She has presented collections at the Designers Invitation Project held by Uniqlo (2007) and the Designers Invitation for UT (2008). For more information visit here website here.

Last year Treasure Seeker Colleen attended and reviewed this show. You can see the post here. Having missed the show last season, I was eager to see what this season had in store! The show was set in the largest venue Hall at Tokyo Midtown. There were disco balls, flashing spotlights and what looked like glitter everywhere! It was difficult to see in the dark, but it looked like there were upwards of sixty photographers taking pictures.

Again, there were studs, rhinestones and everything was bedazzled. Many of the pieces were white and featured studs. Harem pants, cropped tops, skirts and tasseled pants were styled with high platform peep toe studded boots. The majority of the looks were white however, there were a few blues and blacks thrown into the mix. The clothes would be great for a night out or a fabulous event. The production of the whole show was quite impressive and left us wanting to watch it again!

(Image by Clothes Line Finds)

(Images via JFW)