It was the late 1800s when promotionally minded French gown designers began hiring ladies to put on their newest creations to excessive-profile public occasions like parades and horse races proper on the streets of Paris. Nowhere has Japanese fashion flashed between such extremities as it has in Tokyo’s Harajuku district where the over-styled subcultures that gave the area its repute as a vogue mecca are sometimes troublesome to disentangle. And others continue to push boundaries in ways that would surprise and delight the international trend industry, if extra had been known about them.

As a longtime participant in — and observer of — Japanese street trend, he believed that surfacing younger underexposed designers would convey much needed freshness to the existing panorama. Established Japanese designers are making waves all over the world as Japan’s subsequent trend era arrives in Harajuku full of anticipation.

Within the Laforet Division Retailer, a rising …