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Before long, she was slapping on her sisters’ makeup and strutting around in various outfits of her choosing as she sought to find a style that she could call her own. Suguri first became interested in fashion around three years ago after flicking through her elder sisters’ magazines.

Almost 350 models under the age of 14 participated in Tokyo Top Kids Collection, competing for such categories as best fashion, best smile and best runway walk.Īmong the contestants was 12-year-old Suguri Shishikura, who was making her second appearance as a model and her first at Top Kids Collection. The modeling opportunities that exist for preteens in Japan nowadays were certainly evident at Yoyogi National Gymnasium at the beginning of August.

Nowhere is such an ideal more apparent than in the fashion industry, and youth fashion, in particular, has undergone changes in the past five years or so that makes it virtually unrecognizable from its former state.