As part of the Kansai Workshop on Global Fashion Business, this event serves as a forum for discussion and exchange between academics and industry professionals about various aspects of fashion. Key issues for understanding the state of the fashion and apparel industry today throughout the world include creativity, sustainability, global competition, and changing consumer habits. This year, the focus will be on business and cultural exchanges between Europe and Japan.
本イベントは「グローバル・ファッション・ビジネス関西ワークショップ」の一環として開催され、ファッションやアパレル産業について理解を深めるため、研究者や実務家が集まり、さまざまな視角から議論する場です。私たちは、とりわけ、クリエイティビティ、サスティナビリティ、グローバル競争、消費者習慣といった視点に注目し議論しています。 今年は、欧州と日本の間のビジネスおよび文化交流に焦点を当てます。
Program
- 5:00pm – Doors open
- 5:30pm – Book launch: Capitalism’s Favorite Child: Global Fashion Business since 1850, Pierre-Yves Donzé (Professor at The University Osaka) and Ben Wubs (Professor at Eramsus University, Rotterdam)
- 5:45pm – Luxury Travels Badly—Unless You Govern Distribution: Field Notes from Italy–Japan Consulting, Yoko Isozaki (Retail Consultant, LuxModa Consulting)
- 6:00pm – 「EUのエコデザイン規則が日本のファッション企業に与える影響」藤岡里圭（東京大学大学院経済学研究科教授）
- 6:15pm – 「エシカル／サステナブルファッション、日本の消費者はどう認識している？」井出和希（大阪大学 CiDER/ELSIセンター特定准教授）
- 6:30pm – Q&A
- 6:45pm – Networking reception
- 8:00pm – End of the event
iCal / Outlook
Event start time
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Speakers
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Bio
Prof. Pierre-Yves Donzé
Professor, The University of OsakaPierre-Yves Donzé is a professor of business history at Osaka University (Japan) and a visiting professor at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is vice-president of the European Business History Association. His research focuses on the business history of fashion and luxury, the history of multinational enterprises and the business history of medicine. He has extensively published on the global history of the watch industry. He has recently published The making of a status symbol: A business history of Rolex (Manchester University Press, 2025) and Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2024, with Julia Yongue). Website: https://sites.google.com/view/donze/home
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Prof. Ben Wubs
Professor International Business History, Erasmus UniversityBen Wubs is a Professor International Business History at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is engaged in various research projects related to multinationals, taxation, business systems, transnational economic regions, and the global fashion industry. He is Programme Director of an Erasmus Mundus master GLOCAL. Forthcoming book (co-authored with Pierre-Yves Donzé): Capitalism’s Favorite Child: Global Fashion Business since 1850 (Bloomsbury, 2026).
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Ms. Yoko Isozaki
Retail Consultant, LuxModa ConsultingYoko Isozaki is a retail consultant bridging niche foreign luxury brands and Japanese channels, and a member of LuxModa Consulting, a Kyoto-based boutique consulting firm. She has management experience in the retail divisions of French and Italian luxury brands. In parallel, she is a PhD candidate at The University of Osaka. She holds an MBA in Design, Fashion, Luxury Goods Management from Università di Bologna. She has published a co-authored article in the Journal of Global Fashion Marketing.
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Dr. Rika Fujioka
Professor, The University of TokyoRika Fujioka is Professor of Retail History at The University of Tokyo, Japan. Her recent research concerns the changing competitiveness of retail and apparel companies under globalisation. Her publications include, “The Formation of a Technology-Based Fashion System, 1945-1990: The Source of the Lost Competitiveness of Japanese Apparel Companies” (Enterprise and Society, 22(2) 2021, with Pierre-Yves Donze), and Global Luxury (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 edited with Pierre-Yves Donze).
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Prof. Kazuki Ide
Specially-Appointed Associate Professor, The University of OsakaKazuki Ide (RPh, MFA, MSc, PhD) is a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University. His broad research interests include scholarly communication/open science, public health/health informatics, and Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI)/Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). He applies these ELSI/RRI perspectives across diverse domains, including the fashion industry.
