Word: hishinuma
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...strayed far from the established aesthetics of the house. Ask a European or an American fashion editor to name a fresh, up-and-coming Japanese face and you get only silence. A Japanese fashion editor will tell you which Japanese designers are showing - Junko Shimada, Atsuro Tsuyama and Yoshiki Hishinuma - but as Kaori Tsukamoto, fashion director for Vogue Japan, admitted in Paris: "I'm not going to those shows...
...YOSHIKI HISHINUMA, 27, is an anomaly. His clothes, rendered in magisterial folds of fabric and silhouettes that wed high drama to gut-level rock-'n'-roll spirit, appear to Western eyes to be the most formally Japanese. They have the reckless ebullience of decade-old Miyake, and they use the sort of unconventional material (like fishing line) that has been associated with the cutting edge in Tokyo. You can buy them in New York and Chicago, Hong Kong and Kuwait, but, Hishinuma says with some bemusement, they are "avant-garde and not very commercial," so they are not for sale...
...hope," Miyake remarked toward the end of the Tokyo shows, "that my contemporaries and I will be the last to have to go to Paris." With Hishinuma and Onozuka, Kumagai and Takayuki Mori bidding to loom large on the Eastern horizon, it might be wise for everyone to start rearranging travel plans right...
...assassin, one Goro Hishinuma, did not break down under a police third degree. This was not strange. Now in progress is a series of assassinations about which the Tokyo police undoubtedly do not want to learn too much. One by one Japan's men-of-peace-and-goodwill have fallen, done to death by assassins...
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