"The Japanese Wave in Paris Fashion" Author: [Japan] Kawamura Yuno Publisher: Chongqing University Press

Despite the challenges from London, Milan and New York in recent years, Paris remains the world's greatest fashion capital. The Parisian fashion industry, through its haute couture, demi-couture, and prt-porter classification system, has created a highly structured and strictly controlled system that is difficult for non-Western designers to penetrate. However, a group of influential Japanese designers have broken into this system and influenced the entire Parisian fashion world. How did they do it? The Parisian fashion industry, which is controlled by dressmakers and designers, has a high threshold, is not only very exclusive, but also very demanding.

This raises the question of author Yunye Kawamura. Does this system promote or inhibit new creativity? In the book, she systematically sorts out how traditional French fashion has been disturbed or strengthened by external forces, such as Kenzo Takada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo, Hanae Mori. At the same time, she also raises many other key questions that the fashion industry should think about today. For example, is the current fashion industry more focused on the commercial shaping of product image rather than the clothing itself? Where would the French fashion industry go without Saint Laurent, Miyake, and Kenzo? This insightful book is the first to delve into the fashion wave set off by Japan in Paris and raises a series of provocative questions about the future of the industry.

Yuniya Kawamura: Professor of Sociology at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Author of "How to Do Fashion and Clothing Research" and "Fashion Studies: An Introduction to Fashion Research".