Japanese Fashion Trends
When: Thursday, February 28, 2008
Time: 6:30pm Drinks, 7pm Dinner
8-9pm Presentation
Where: 10th Floor Hilton Osaka
Guest Speaker: Kjeld Duits; Photo-journalist
Cost: ￥4,000 Members, ￥6,000 Non-members
Since the mid-1990's Tokyo's energetic street fashion has caught the imagination of all who have seen it. It has made Tokyo one of the world's fashion leaders. Established designers from all over the world regularly visit Tokyo to check the city's latest trends. Especially Harajuku and Shibuya are high on their agenda. Harajuku is now so popular among foreigners that it is estimated that 20% of this area's revenues are generated by foreigners. This at a time when Japan exports only 1 dollar of fashion for every 50 that it imports. Japan's government and business leaders, deeply aware of the problems that the Japanese fashion market faces, are now starting to pay attention. Showing a small selection of his many thousands of street fashion photos, photo-journalist Kjeld Duits explains how Harajuku became the world's fashion lab and what trends it has spawned over the past few years.
Born in the Netherlands, Kjeld Duits has lived and worked in Japan since 1982. Duits works as a journalist and photographer for several daily newspapers. Organizations like Associated Press, The Times, Wired Magazine and Australia's Herald Sun have carried his work and he has worked on TV and radio programs, for amongst others, the BBC and NHK. Over the years he has covered major news stories like the Ibaraki nuclear accident and the Taiwan and Indian Earthquakes. He covered the Tsunami Disaster of 2004 in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Aceh, Indonesia, as well as the horrific train accident near Osaka in April 2005, and the Pakistani earthquake of October 2005.
Kjeld's biggest love is Japanese street fashion, which he covers on his site JapaneseStreets, which was nominated for the prestigious Webby Awards in 2003.
FEW is a networking organization for women in Japan. Our meetings are usually held on the last Thursday of each month at the Hilton Hotel Osaka in Umeda from 18:30 - 21:00. Non-members are always welcome to attend our monthly meetings to see for themselves why they should join FEW.
Please RSVP with menu preference to Evelyn by Sunday, February 24th.
FEBRUARY MEETING DINNER MENUS
Please specify your menu preference when you RSVP by Sunday, February 24th.
All menus come with coffee or tea and dessert: Earl grey cheese cake, chocolate cream and cherry marble ice cream.
Fish
- Cardamom flavored flan and root vegetables, served with lily bulb cream soup
- Gratinated turbot with vegetable nouille and spinach, spiced lobster sauce
Meat
- Cardamom flavored flan and root vegetables, served with lily bulb cream soup
- Red wine braised pork belly with prune and caramelized pineapple
Vegetarian
- Cardamom flavored flan and root vegetables, served with lily bulb cream soup
- Spaghettis with rape blossoms and early spring mountain vegetables fritter
