Checking out Tokyo fashions seems to have become an important item on their “must do” lists.

I also hear that last autumn there were very many foreign buyers and project designers in Tokyo obviously purchasing samples in bulk. I think that what has turned Tokyo into such a fashion magnet, especially as far as street fashion–that is to say, articles sold in street shops–goes, is not so much any great originality but rather the stunning enthusiasm that young people in the city are showing regarding fashion.

I think these fashion professionals have been simply bowled over by the intensity of this enthusiasm. In fact, there even seem to be instances in which fashions that first become popular in Tokyo appear in Paris collections the next season.