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Pure Art
Japanese fashion designers have revolutionized clothes -- and thrill crowds each year at Paris Fashion Week -- but none head a major Western fashion house. Why?

Fashion shows by Japanese designers are seen as moments of calm and intellectual stimulation in fashion weeks too often filled with mundane clothes and headline-grabbing shock theatricals.

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