F/W 2008 ready-to-wear

Analogic Color Scheme

Monochromatic Color Scheme

Split Complimentary Color Scheme

Analogic Color Scheme

Analogic Color Scheme

Complimentary Color Scheme

Split Complimentary Color Scheme

Analogic Color Scheme

Split Complimentary Color Scheme

Achromatic

MasterCard Luxury Week Hong Kong 2008

Sayoke Yamaguchi is an famouse janpense model. She is 1977 super model in Newweek. She wear Kenzo design to show in fashion show in F/W 2008.

F/W 2008 collection design is from Japan Wabi-sabi. Designer of Kenzo is Antonio Marras. Designer use many type of flower pattern in design.

what is apan Wabi-sabi?
侘寂(Wabi-Sabi)
古代的“真实”审美意识是在日本本土文化思想──原始神道文化土壤中萌芽和生成的。
日本古代审美学意识从萌芽到发生的全过程，都是以“真实”（まこと）为基底的。在不同历史时期，分别接受外来佛教的“心性”和禅宗的“无中万般有”的思想影响，融合在比如古代的“物哀” （もののあはれ）、近古的“空寂”（わび Wabi） 的幽玄和“闲寂”（さび Sabi）的风雅等审美意识中，成为不易的日本美学精神，流贯于各种日本文艺乃至生活意识之中，成为日本文明的河床。

Who is Sayoke Yamaguchi?

Sayoko Yamaguchi 1950-2007
Japanese supermodel Sayoko Yamaguchi died from acute pneumonia on August 14 it was reported today.

In the 1970s, at a time when light skinned occidentals ruled the runway, Yamaguchi used her very Asian looks to conquer the fashion world’s top catwalks.

Yokohama born Sayoko Yamaguchi graduated from Sugino Gakuen, a fashion design school in Tokyo, and originally had no intention of becoming a fashion model. When she did become a model, she often thought of quitting because she didn’t have a Western look.

One day, her mother cut her hair in the old style for young Japanese girls, a straight short bob with long straight bangs reaching close to the eyes. With her beautiful almond-shaped eyes, it made her look like a traditional Japanese doll. Armed with this new look she auditioned for Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Ironically, she had made up her mind that this would be her last audition. If she couldn’t get the job, she would quit modeling.

Yamaguchi cherished her bob and made it her trademark. Consequently, Westerners saw Yamaguchi as the dictionary definition of Oriental beauty.
Yamaguchi made her Paris debut in 1972 and regularly modeled for Japan’s top designers like Kenzo Takada, Issei Miyake and Kansai Yamamoto. Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido used her in an ad campaign to promote make-up for Asian faces and to make Japanese women more comfortable with their own beauty.

Newsweek magazine named Yamaguchi as one of the top six models in the world in 1977. In 1984, she received a special prize at the Mainichi Fashion Awards.

In her later years, Yamaguchi performed on stage and in movies, and also designed stage costumes.

Yamaguchi said that the three most important elements of modeling were kimochi (feeling), katachi (style) and ugoki (movement). Unfortunately, her movement has now ceased, but her feeling and style will last forever.