One of Japan’s largest creative festivals, Tokyo Creative Salon 2026 (TCS 2026), was held from March 13 to 22, 2026. Spanning nine of Tokyo’s key districts, the event seeks to redefine the city’s cultural memory through creativity. In Shinjuku, one of its featured programs, Tokyo Vintage Fashion Week, took center stage.
Tokyo Vintage Fashion Week is a fashion event centered on Japan’s vintage culture, offering a broad audience the chance to experience its appeal and enduring value. Held at Shinjuku Sumitomo Building’s Triangle Plaza, the Vintage Market brought together around 100 shops, showcasing a diverse range of vintage pieces. Alongside it, the Vintage Fashion Show brought the era and stories behind each garment to life through styling.
Vintage Market: Bringing Together 100 Finest Shops
For those well-versed in vintage, knowing where to find quality pieces comes with the territory. But for newcomers, navigating the many shops scattered across the city in search of something to their taste can take quite some time. With that in mind, the Vintage Market serves as an ideal entry point into vintage fashion. It brings together a wide range of selections in one place, making it easy to compare, while also offering a gateway to discover shops worth visiting later.
From denim specialists to stores focused on women’s vintage or interior goods, each booth reflects a distinct identity, and browsing alone is part of the experience.
There were also booths dedicated to high-end archive pieces. At the booth by STAYGOLD Co., Ltd., which operates the used shop BRING. and the premium vintage shop AWESOME by BRING, legendary items such as a bomber jacket by RAF SIMONS were casually on display, offering rare finds that would make any fashion enthusiast stop in their tracks.
Raf Simons bomber jacket from the Fall/Winter 2001–2002 “Riot! Riot! Riot!” collection. A cult piece that remains highly sought-after to this day.
The STAYGOLD booth featured a Chrome Hearts double rider jacket, adorned with a filigree cross on the back. The leather feels substantial and smooth, clearly well maintained.
ARCHIVESTOCK, a resale app focused on luxury brands, showcased pristine vintage pieces from DRIES VAN NOTEN and PRADA.
DRIES VAN NOTEN embroidered jacket from the 2017 Spring/Summer menswear collection at the ARCHIVESTOCK booth.
PRADA leather jacket at the ARCHIVESTOCK booth. The goat leather’s texture brings out the bold, rugged silhouette.
Two Distinct Vintage Fashion Shows
◾️Regular Vintage Fashion Show
On the first day of our visit, the Regular Vintage Fashion Show took place on the central runway, styled by fashion stylist Manabu Harada and DEPT COMPANY representative Eri. The looks, composed entirely of everyday vintage rather than rare premium pieces, offered plenty of inspiration for real-world styling. Seeing fabrics and silhouettes that are no longer in circulation felt unexpectedly novel and invigorating.
Photo credit: Tokyo Vintage Fashion Week
◾️ Future Vintage Fashion Show
The second day featured the Future Vintage Fashion Show, focused on designs with enduring relevance. Stylist Yoko Miyake, renowned for her work in high-fashion publications such as VOGUE, curated a lineup that bridged historic archives including COMME des GARÇONS, Yohji Yamamoto, and Dior Homme with contemporary brands like AURALEE and sacai. The show presented “Future Vintage” pieces, envisioned to grow in significance over decades, offering a vision of fashion that resonates across time and passes inspiration to the next generation.
Photo credit: Tokyo Vintage Fashion Week
Traditionally, fashion weeks have focused on presenting newly made pieces as the latest trends. Vintage Fashion Week, however, brought a fresh approach: reinterpreting inherited designs through a modern lens to create contemporary relevance.
The garments we wear today could, decades from now, be someone else’s Future Vintage. Immersing yourself in this long cycle of fashion across time might be the perfect way to experience style in the years ahead.
Tokyo Vintage fashion Week
Schedule: March 13–15, 2026 (Fri–Sun)
Location: Shinjuku Sumitomo Building Triangle Plaza (2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo)
Official website: https://tokyovintagefashionweek.com/
Official Instagram: @tokyo_vintage_fashion_week
