Book Description Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world It has a rigid and tightly controlled system that non-western designers have difficulty penetrating Yet a number of the most атзвчinfluential Japanese designers have broken into this scene and made a major impact How? Kawamura shows how French fashion has been both disturbed and strengthened by the addition of "outside" forces such as Kenzo Takada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawбгжтоakubo, and Hanae Mori She considers many other key questions the fashion industry should be asking itself Does the system facilitate or inhibit creativity? Has it become preoccupied with the commercial projection of "product images" rather than with the clothing itself? And what direction will French fashion take without Saint Laurent, Miyake and Kenzo? This is the first in-depth study of the Japanese revolution in Paris fashion and raises provocative questions for the futбожнщure of the industry.