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Yukiko Hanai s/s 2011 Tokyo

Nothing screams spring more than exhilarating colors and floral patterns. Yukiko Hanai, launched her Spring/Summer 2011 collection at Japan’s Fashion Week in Tokyo last week.

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Keita Maruyama s/s 2011 Tokyo

Tokyo-born designer Keita Maruyama is best known for his work in the Japanese fashion industry. After graduating in design at the Bunka Fashion College, he commenced his career in 1987 at the Japanese Designer Company.

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Kamishima Chinami s/s 2011 Tokyo

Kamishima Chinami is a brilliant Japanese designer whose work has literally been ‘Lost in Translation’ as the west remains to be seen as an unreceptive territory for Asian designers.

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Jean Paul Gaultier s/s 2011 Paris

The eternally controversial designer Jean Paul Gaultier set the stage on fire and re-branded fashion yet again while presenting his S/S 2011 collection in Paris.

Everyone familiar with the French designer instantly associates his clothes with humor and an extremely showy cleverness, with a mixture of a tom boy attitude.

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Haider Hackermann s/s 2011 Paris

Haider Ackermann affirmed his talent once for all with his Spring/Summer collection, establishing his leadership in the Antwerp new generation. His women evoked an ancestral beauty, without compromising a powerful – almost poisonous – elegance.

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Moon Young Hee s/s 2011 Paris

Moon Young Hee presented a decisively sensual collection at for her Spring/Summer 2011 show during Paris fashion week. Maintaining hints of her ballerina themes from her Autumn/Winter collection, Moon young took an edgier turn by adding a darker romantic feeling.

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Rick Owens s/s 2011 Paris

A new femininity walked at Rick Owens, in Paris. The dark warriors of last season are a blurred memory; the british designer, in fact, confessed: “I started with abandon. Now I’m more interested in control”.

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Gareth Pugh s/s 2011 Paris

Gareth Pugh tightens his bond with art, choosing to display his Spring/Summer collection in a fashion film, rather than in a more orthodox runway show.