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Junya Tashiro (born 1974 in Saga Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Fukuoka City. Tashiro creates women's apparel (mainly dresses and skirts) as well as handbags and ladies' accessories. Tashiro often works in natural fabrics such as linen in earthy colors. He has presented his fashion creations in Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo.
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More About Junya Tashiro
At the age of 27, Tashiro quit his job as being a salary man, and taught himself fashion, along with graduating from the Mode Styling College at the Human Academy in Fukuoka. In 2004, after his study of fashion, he established his new brand ‘JUNYA TASHIRO ’. He set up shop in Fukuoka, Japan, which is a city located in Kyushu, Japan, due to his adamance in his "Made in Fukuoka" policy. He also adds this policy title on his clothing tags, which demonstrates the geographic difference between him and other designers who design elsewhere. Later, Tashiro joined Tokyo Fashion Week in September of 2006, and presented his first collection in 2007. Junya Tashiro emphasizes the significance of material in his designer clothing based on his belief that “good clothing doesn’t get old, but [rather] matures" . In this way, he compares his clothings’ quality to “aging like fine wine” . In 2006, he implements these beliefs to manage a store atelier brand “Himitsukiti”, where he focused on creating and designing "natural + α" based [clothing based] on “gentle colors, textures, and natural materials that are worn many times . Currently, Tashiro’s latest Japan Fashion Week collection was in the year 2014, under the Spring/Summer category . Overall, Junya Tashiro has contributed 3 A/W (Autumn Winter) and 5 S/S (Spring/Summer) collections in Tokyo’s Japan Fashion Week . Tashiro is also known for orchestrating a performance befitting his comfortable clothing by seemingly having ballerina dance effortlessly in one of his creations, that of which amused the audience. The theme for this exhibition at Tokyo Midtown was “Ragxury,” a clever blending of “rag” and “luxury, where he presented comfortable clothing in a luxurious manner. These comfortable clothes were made strictly of various scraps leftover from the making of other dresses, resulting in many layers of different textures. His designs also tend to draw from contemporary pop culture, such as anime and movies, according to Tokyo Fashion News. “[Tashiro] often employs patterns as well as lace and light colors” in his designing. While he's not designing, he also a rider for a private team".

Current Endeavors
Currently, he has recently made and is running a cafe & bar named HIMITSU KITCHEN located in Meguro Ward while still dabbling in the art of fashion designing .

Overview of all Junya Tashiro's Tokyo Fashion Week Collections:
S/S = Spring/Summer, A/W = Autumn/Winter 2014 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2012 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2011 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2010 A/W - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2010 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2009 A/W - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2009 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2008 A/W - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2008 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2007 A/W - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

2007 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo

Key Design Moments Within Tahiro's Fashion Week Collections
For 2007’s A/W - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo Tashiro provided “a very accomplished collection for a relative newcomer to the Tokyo fashion arena”. In this season's womenswear collection Tashiro provided both sophisticated and classy looks that stayed within his comfort zone. For this being his second ever Tokyo fashion show, he designed winter coats in soft fabrics along with pleated skirts and jackets in fall-like colors, all of which had an elegant and autumn-like appeal.

The 2008 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo marks the first time that Tashiro publicly designs with darker colors along with his signature lighter colors in his Tokyo Fashion show collections.

In his 2009 A/W - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo – Tashiro marks a year where he went out of his comfort zone for his collection. Again, he had used dark colors for a majority of his clothing items, which added a level of ‘grunge’ to his collection, while still implementing his sophistication within his clothing through his designs.

In his 2010 A/W - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo – Tashiro marks a year where he went out of his comfort zone for his collection. As opposed to his 2010 S/S collection, where he had a collection relaying beige-like and white color design, this collection implements an “checked print" design . Tashiro also made sure that the models wore checks on their fingernails . In addition to this, he featured models which were considered ‘shorter’ than model height. Anthea, who is a fashion blogger, says that this illustrates Tashiro showing inclusivity within his collection, showing that the clothes would look great on anyone .  

In Tashiro’s 2011 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo, he appeared to design his Spring and Summer collection out of his comfort zone by designing with more color (an addition of streak of color as well) and incorporating a bit of his 2010 Autumn/Winter color palette into this collection. He still stuck with modernity and sophistication in his designs to perceive his clothing designs as effortlessly as possible. It is shown backstage that the models’ hair and makeup was done to match the show’s pop of color, with some models getting bright highlights and bright blush. Additionally, during the fashion show Tashiro presents his outfits on the runway with a lowkey light, shining directly onto the outfits, while maintaining a dim appearance around the model.

The 2012 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo had taken place on Friday, October 21st at at Belle epoque College of Beauty during Tokyo Fashion Week. Throughout the collection he incorporated more color revolving around his inspiration which was a 2008 fantasy novel written by the Japanese author Sachika. This had inspired him to add these pops of color and revolve his designs around making them more “fairy tale-eque" . Additionally, this fashion show ended off with an outfit of the collection portraying a wedding dress, which Tokyo Fashion News states would presumably represent “happily ever after”.

He presented the 2014 S/S - Women’s - Runway Collection, Tokyo at Hikarie Hall B in Shibuya. In this collection he was inspired by the racing he has done as a rider for a private team. He took on the challenge of fusing fashion with the materials and details of motor sportswear under the theme of "R" in racing".