The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week TOKYO 2015-16 A/W will be held March 16 – 21. The main venue will be Shibuya Hikarie, a shopping and entertainment complex. Forty-eight brands will be involved in the event, of which 13 are participating for the first time.

Of particular note is a special show presented by TAKEO KIKUCHI, as the brand celebrates the 30th anniversary of its founding this year.

Brands participating for the first time include Black by VANQUISH, produced by casual apparel manufacturer and retailer Ceno Company, Ltd.; and 5351 POUR LES HOMMES ET LES FEMMES, produced by Abahouse International Co. Also JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, which has been presenting its line-up in Paris since autumn/winter 2011-12, will also be appearing in the event.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week TOKYO 2015-16 A/W Participating Brands

■5351 POUR LES HOMMES ET LES FEMMES (KAZUHISA KOMURA / REI TAKAHASHI)
■A DEGREE FAHRENHEIT (Yu Amatsu)
■AD-DRESSING DIALOGUES IN FASHION & ARCHITECTURE
(NATURES OF CONFLICT / DMMJK / GON / MOTO DJALI / MESHIT / BRADERIC OHMAE / EVA BLUT) ※Austria
■AMBELL (Bunzo Kadono)
■anuune (Daichi Shiraki)
■ato (Ato Matsumoto)
■beautiful people (Hidenori Kumakir)
■Black by VANQUISH (hayato shiroyama)
■byU (Hiroki Uemura)
■CHRISTIAN DADA (Masanori Morikawa)
■COTE MER (Norio Sato / Seishi Naito)
■CURATED BY EK THONGPRASERT (Ek Thongprasert) ※Thai
■D.TT.K (DETTO K)
■DISCOVERED (Tatsuya Kimura / Sanae Yoshida)
■DRESSCAMP (Toshikazu Iwaya)
■DRESSEDUNDRESSED (Takeshi Kitazawa / Emiko Sato)
■FACETASM (Hiromichi Ochiai)
■FACTOTUM (Koji Udo)
■HANAE MORI designed by Yu Amatsu (Yu Amatsu)
■haori de TiTi (Tazuko Yamaki)
■HIROKO KOSHINO (Hiroko Koshino)
■House of Holland (Henry Holland) ※UK
■IISER LOEN (Koji Tezuka)
■IN-PROCESS BY HALL OHARA (Yurika Ohara / Steven Hall)
■Jakarta Fashion Week ※Indonesia
■Johan Ku Gold Label (Johan Ku) ※UK
■JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN (Arashi Yanagawa)
■JOTARO SAITO (Jotaro Saito)
■KBF (KBF design team)
■KIDILL (Hiroaki Sueyasu)
■matohu (Hiroyuki Horihata / Makiko Sekiguchi)
■Motohiro Tanji (Motohiro Tanji)
■motonari ono (Motonari Ono)
■Noir Fr (Syota Masuda)
■Patchy Cake Eater (Shigeki Morino)
■sina suien (Yumiko Arimoto)
■Sretsis (Pim Sukhahuta) ※Thai
■sulvam (Teppei Fujita)
■support surface (Norio Surikabe)
■TAE ASHIDA (Tae Ashida)
■TAKEO KIKUCHI (Takeo Kikuchi)
■tenbo (Takafumi Tsuruta)
■Ujoh (Mitsuru Nishizaki)
■WHIZ LIMITED (Hiroaki Shitano)
■writtenafterawrds (Yoshikazu Yamagata)
■yoshio kubo (Yoshio Kubo)
■YUKI TORII INTERNATIONAL (Yuki Torii)
■YUMA KOSHINO (Yuma Koshino)

Special programme presented by Takeo Kikuchi

Takeo Kikuchi was born in 1939. He established BIGI in 1970, and in 1975 went on to establish MEN’S BIGI.

In 1984, he left to work for World Co., Ltd., and launched TAKEO KIKUCHI. In 2004, he passed on the title of creative director to his successor. In 2005, Kikuchi started 40CARATS&525 under his own direction.

In 2012, he returned to TAKEO KIKUCHI as creative director.