Hanging by a thread

[Hachiko]

Spurned by many top Japanese designers, patchy in quality and sprawling over a month at a mishmash of venues, the twice-yearly Tokyo Collections -- whose fall/winter 2004/05 shows end this week -- still lay claim to being the highpoints of Asia's fashion year. But are Tokyo's days numbered as the `Paris of the East'?

Japan Times (http://www.japantimes.com/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20040418x1.htm)

[playaa]

Japan from what I hear is a fashion city, so my guess would be they are not to far behind Paris. :)