For the Japanese designers who have made Paris their presentation ground, it was business as usual.

The best of the Japanese designers showing here play by their own rules.

The Japanese designers who showed here this week lived up to their reputation as the most experimental in the world.

When the Japanese designers came here six years ago, their clothes looked strange, powerful and tough.

No backward anything, however, for the most famous Japanese designer showing his stuff each season in Paris.

European, American and Japanese designers all know the score.

Besides, it was the mid-80's, and by then Japanese designers had altered the landscape.

It is a great time for Japanese designers.

Second was the revival of full skirts, top right, from Japanese designers.

So the Japanese designers' notion of men's dress has long been a man who looks pretentiously unpretentious.