{"id":588687,"date":"2026-09-03T07:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588687\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:36:16","slug":"at-rakuten-fashion-week-tokyo-tomorrows-runway-icons-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588687\/","title":{"rendered":"At Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo, tomorrow\u2019s runway icons shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Shibuya Hikarie Hall on the afternoon of Aug. 31, a Mongolian ger (large yurt) dominates the space. Around it, models in earth tones, gossamer-thin layers, technical outerwear, braided cords and intricately constructed garments stalk along a square runway with guests seated on all four sides.<\/p>\n<p>Then the lights go out and fluorescent footprints appear across the floor. Designer Yoshio Kubo emerges to take a bow, a black light illuminating his face painted a fluorescent green.<\/p>\n<p>It was an appropriately dramatic opening for Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo\u2019s 2027 Spring\/Summer season, which runs through Sept. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside Shibuya Hikarie Hall on the afternoon of Aug. 31, a Mongolian ger (large yurt) dominates the space.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39426,289698,38663,111,139,69,145,289699],"class_list":["post-588687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-clothing","tag-japanese-fashion","tag-modeling","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology","tag-tokyo-fashion-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}