EXCERPT: FETICO. FALL 2023 - TOKYO FASHION WEEK

 "...Fetico being a very young brand, which was started in 2020 by Emi Funiyama a graduate of the Esmond design school of Tokyo, completing her studies in 2010.  And as an extra incentive to her emerging brand, in July 2022 prior to Spring Fashion week in Tokyo,  Funiyama had won the Japan Fashion Week 'Next Brand' award for her brand Fetico.  With only two runway shows under her belt, Funiyama's Fall 2023 collection is beginning to show the latency of Funiyama's talent as an upcoming Japanese designer.

For Funiyama's Fall 2023 collection, as seen with other designers stalwart trend of the last five years, which is very much their romantism of late 1970's hedonistic cues.  That being the sweet spot between the contraceptive pill and AIDS, where sexual energy and expression under a disco ball ruled supreme.  However, in no way should one see the late 70's and early 1980's as a time of perfection or enlightenment, it was more or less an era that overlapped 1960's idealism with a new found amourous desire.   And I can understand why designers keep returning to this particular time frame; the differentials were much more defined as were the motives, which were driven less by self centered narcissism and more by widespread, as mentioned, hedonism.  So why not prefer the later..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/04/fetico-fall-2023-tokyo-fashion-week.html 

(A.Glass 2023)