Tsumori Chisato Fall/Winter 2015

By Liza Foreman

PARIS

The old world interiors of the Ecole des Beaux Arts were
treated to a touch of the comic book world on Saturday
morning, with the colorful Japanese designer
Tsumori Chisato's Fall/Winter 2015 catwalk show.

Chisato who has a chi chi store in the Aoyama district of Tokyo, sent
out cute and sometimes couture level designs that both brought to
mind a character that had walked out of a comic book or
a girl that had at least taken a few scraps of comic book pages and put
them onto a dress to embellish the design.

So the Japanese, as we know, like pop culture clothing and
Hello Kitty, and wear other things that might be considered
too silly elsewhere. But in the hands of an extraordinarily
colorful and creative designer, that approach here was elevated into
something that deserves its place on the Paris catwalks and
even shines  there, with creativity of this kind and brands this original being
too few in number.