During Japan Fashion Week (JFW) from March 17th to 19th, the fashion and art event "VIENNA ON THE MOVE," sponsored by the Austrian Embassy Commercial Section and Vienna-based select shop "SIGHT," will be held at Lightbox Studio Aoyama in Tokyo's Aoyama district.

The event focuses on Vienna, the capital of Austria. Vienna is a city that has been nurtured over the years not only by today's Austrians, but also by people from a much wider range of cultures. The venue will feature the 2016-17 Autumn/Winter collections of nine fashion brands that call Vienna home, a city rife with large-scale immigration and intercultural issues, as well as works by six contemporary artists on the theme of "migration." Participating fashion artists include Rani Bagheria, whose brands began being carried by OPENING CEREMONY soon after presenting her first collection during Paris Fashion Week in 2013; DMMJK, winner of numerous fashion awards, who presented their collection at the AFA Showroom in Paris in 2015; and Croatian-Japanese design duo Bradaric Ohmae. Contemporary artists include Jun Yang, who will also be exhibiting at the "Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice" exhibition at the Mori Art Museum from March, and Lisl Ponger, who works in photography and film to interpret stereotypes and racism in art, art history, and ethnology.

Also, from 4:00 p.m. on March 18th, Taro Omae and Jun Yang, designers from Vienna-based Bradaric Ohmae, will be invited to a talk session with curator Andreas Spiegel of the University of Fine Arts Vienna on the topic of "immigration" from the perspective of art and fashion.