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Name: Shinichiro
Last name: Arakawa

Was born in 1966, Japan.
In 1989 moved to Paris where took the fashion course at Ber�ot Studio. Soon he met English fashion designer Christopher Nemeth and began to work for him as his assistant.
Created his first collection in 1994 (Spring/Summer) and showed it in Paris.
Collection Fall/Winter 1995 was shown in Tokyo.
Arakawa opened his first boutique in Paris 1996.
In 1998 he started his own shop in Tokyo.

Red is an important colour to Arakawa. “Red is a colour with two faces,” he explains, “It radiates power, but also weakness. That makes red a symbol of humanity. Sometimes I feel strong, sometimes weak. But nonetheless I want to be myself.” ‘Being yourself’ and ‘knowing yourself’ are two important characteristics of Arakawa’s life philosophy.

Arakawa defines a theme for each collection (for example, collection Honda).

He often chooses a place to reinforce that theme: in 1995, his models strut down a street of a working-class area of Shimo-Kitazawa. In 1996, he showed his Koinobori-themes clothes in the Omote Sando Avenue, an expensive area in Tokyo. His kogyaru-schoolgirl walked in uniform around Tokyo University.

Shinichiro Arakava is representetive of younger Japaneese designers generation (such as Jun Takahashi, Hiroaki Ohya, Kosuke Tsumura, and Naoki Takizawa).

Oficial Shinichiro Arakawa site.