Moving on: Toshikazu Iwaya of Dresscamp

[chessmess]

MOVING ON: Toshikazu Iwaya, the former designer of hot Tokyo fashion label DressCamp, will debut his new brand, Iwaya for Dress 33, during the Paris shows in September. Nobuyuki Nakama, a former Moschino Japan president, is Iwaya’s new business partner. The two expect the brand to reach 2 billion yen, or $18.5 million, in sales sometime over the next three years and to open a freestanding store in Japan and a string of shop-in-shops. Iwaya, a graduate of Bunka Fashion College, put DressCamp, an ostentatious brand known for its bold prints and colors, on the Tokyo map before he left the label earlier this year. Iwaya said his spring debut for the new brand will draw on “Baroque” influences. The designer will also stage a show in Tokyo in October with some additional looks not shown in Paris.

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I loved dresscamp so this is kind of sad but at least hes still working and hes showing in paris now!!!

 

[mishahoi]

hmmm....didnt WWD report not long ago that he was designing for Samantha Thavasa`s new upscale line "8 Million"? I wonder if this is the same thing... I want to know more...
Thanks for posting this!

 

[runner]

they say there are two different projects going on.
8 million is supposed to be a multi-label store ST will operate in ginza and he is a hired designer in charge of the store's private label also named 8 million
while he started that brand dress 33 with iwy and they are planing its freestanding store in aoyama.
I guess at "at ones" he was originally just a ichi shain of the company rather than a designer of dresscamp.