Clothes
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How important are clothes and fashion to you?
Why? Why not?
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What kind of clothes do you dislike? Why?
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How different are the clothes you wear now
from those you wore 10 years ago?
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What do you think the clothes we wear say about
us?
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Denim and the tony
Ginza district in Tokyo never before seemed the right fit, but for one day,
they were tailor-made for each other.
An outdoor fashion
show was held in the Ginza district on March 24 to showcase clothes and other fashion items made of quality denim
produced in Japan.
More than 150 models
walked the 100-meter catwalk
covered in denim for the event, the Ginza Runway, on Ginza's central street.
The show, watched by crowds of shoppers and passers-by lining both sides of
the runway, featured about 200 items by popular brands by apparel companies and students at
fashion schools in Japan.
The items ranged
from pastel-colored jeans,
luxurious dresses with frills and kimono, to headwear and bags.
The show was the brainchild of a Ginza department
store and others, intended to cheer people up after the nation marked the
one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11.
The denim made in
Japan was chosen because it is widely used by top fashion houses around the
world because of its high quality.
Children from the
disaster-stricken Sendai and Tokyo’s Chuo Ward, where the Ginza is situated,
made appearances in the show's finale.
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The clothing chain
is one of Japan’s biggest exports today and is owned by Japan’s richest (or
second richest, depending on who you ask) man. It claims to be
the world’s fastest-growing apparel retailer.
Uniqlo’s parent
company, Fast Retailing Inc., has partnered with the Sy family’s SM Retail
Inc. to form Fast Retailing Phils. Inc. Uniqlo’s first Philippine store opens
in June at SM Mall of Asia. The shop, to cover 1,500 sq m, will carry the
men’s, women’s and children’s lines.
Tadashi Yanai, chair
and chief executive of Fast Retailing Inc., said in an interview early this
year that Uniqlo is going into developing countries with a fast-growing
middle class, naming the Philippines and other Asian countries.
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