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Tour Highlights ~ Fashion

Trip led by The Coutureman, LaMar Wright

Private hair and make-up each morning

VIP Access to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Runway Shows and Events

Special Behind-the-Scenes Buying Opportunities with top Brands

Access to Mercedes Benz Tokyo Fashion Week evening events and parties

Private Sessions with leading Japanese make-up artists

Meetings with top Kimono designers and experts

FALL FASHION TOUR JAPANOCTOBER 12 ~ 26

Tour Leader Profile:Trip led by The Coutureman, LaMar Wright

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FALL FASHION TOUR JAPANOCTOBER 12 ~ 26

As Founder of The Coutureman LLC (“TCM”), LaMar Wright wears many “hats”. LaMar remains grounded in the trenches of TCM, personally involved in all branding and marketing materials, corporate due diligence, and creative direction. As a freelance makeup artist, celebrity stylist, and Life Style Expert Allure works diligently to create opportunities for his team, incessantly encouraging them towards their individual personal and professional goals. Mr. Wright has created the vision that moves TCM forward. His many accomplishments and endeavors include: Fashion Director for lifestyle tv series Anolan Luxeworld (luxeworldtv.com) and go to makeup artist and personal shopper to the New York City Concierge Association, TCM shows that artistry reaches far beyond the lengths of a photo shoot. The client base includes notable lead video vixens in 50 Cents, Jim Jones, Jamie Foxx and other rapper super star videos. TCM associates with editorial photographers, TV personalities, NYCFashion Week, model agencies, top hair salons and high networth clients

Paula Caldwell’s love for travel started as a young child. Her love of travel took her to Honolulu Hawaii and that is where her career in the travel industry began. Paula’s first job in the industry was with Outrigger Hotels Hawaii. She worked for Outrigger Hotels for several years, in both

their FIT and wholesale reservation departments. She also worked for Trase Miller in their Tulsa Oklahoma office. While at Trase Miller, she worked first worked for the FlyAAWay Vacations desk and shortly thereafter transferred to the Hawaiian Air Vacations desks, where she quickly became

the lead sales agent and destination trainer for Hawaii.

In 1997, she got her start as an travel agent, where she worked for a time as an outside agent for a local travel agency. In

2001, Paula opened Dioduet Travel, in which she started focusing on the luxury market. In 2012 Dioduet Travel ventured into creating luxury bespoke tours, with tours to Fashion Week Paris &

Milan and wine/safari tours to South Africa.

Dioduet travel is affiliated with Avoya Travel, an American Express travel agency.

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In 2013 The Couture Man & Dioduet Travel formed a partnership to create a platform for the luxury market. From this, they merged their love for fashion and travel into a new niche for the

HNW market.

Out of this partnership has come a new focus on tourism from a fashion perspective. From this synergy was born Luxe Experience NYC., which focuses on providing bespoke arrangements into the high end fashion world of New York, while allowing the client to experience the city from a

unique perspective.

Because of their extensive connections, they have started to develop very exclusive tours., with a very personal touch Their bespoke tours enable the client to experience things that the public

could not on their own. From private shopping events, to driving a Ferrari on a race track in Italy, to a private tour of Coco Chanel’s apartment, they strive to ensure that the client’s experience is

out of the ordinary.

Tour Organizer Profile:　 Bodhi Fishman

Bodhi first came to Kyoto in 1990, drawn by a love for Japan's traditional "arts of practice": tea ceremony, calligraphy, flower arrangement, Noh drama, and martial arts. Starting as director of the Oomoto School of Japanese Arts, Bodhi has spent decades working with many of Japan's leading masters to introduce these traditions to visitors from around the world.  Over 20 years spent collaborating with author and conservationist Alex Kerr on the translation of his book Lost Japan, producing the follow-up Dogs & Demons, art collecting, and townhouse & rural conservation projects, have served to deepen Bodhi's passion for the preservation and transmission of Japan's rich cultural heritage.  

 

Bodhi is an artist and art collector himself, and his company Bodaiju (“Bodhi Tree”) Travel & Arts speaks to his belief that Japan is a place where myriad glimpses of enlightenment may be gained through encounters with the many masters here.  Bodhi's tour arrangement focuses on bringing travelers together in deep and meaningful hands-on meetings with these local sensei – the artisans, artists, chefs, art collectors, gardeners, Zen monks, tea teachers, martial arts masters, and more – with which Japan is blessed.  

FALL FASHION TOUR JAPANOCTOBER 12 ~ 26

Tour Highlights ~ Cuisine

Japanese cuisine – recently recognized as a Unesco world heritage – is remarkable in its breadth and depth. We’ll be enjoying the best that the

country has to offer, from spectacular Michelin-starred contemporary fusion cooking in Tokyo, to the finest traditional kaiseki of Kyoto.

FALL FASHION TOUR JAPANOCTOBER 12 ~ 26

Tour Highlights ~ Traditional Culture

Our itinerary is filled with numerous private, meaningful hands-on experiences with leading masters of Japan’s rich traditional art forms ~ from Noh drama to Zen meditation, Tea Ceremony to traditional weaving

and dyeing

FALL FASHION TOUR JAPANOCTOBER 12 ~26

Met at Narita arrivals by guide and driver with private van

Transfer to Andaz Toranomon Hills (new Hyatt luxury property)

VIP In-room check-in

Optional: half-day Tokyo city tour for early arrivals

Welcome cocktails this evening on rooftop terrace of hotel

DAY 1 - ARRIVALOCTOBER 12

Get ready for your day with your hair and make up team

Breakfast

Private van transfer to Meiji Grand Shrine for special welcome Shinto Ceremony

Lunch in Harajuku

Pop Culture and Architecture tour of Harajuku & Omotesando with local expert

Curator’s tour of the Issey Miyake 21/21 Design Sight Museum

Welcome Dinner at Ryugin

Evening Fashion Week kick-off party (TBC)

DAY 2OCTOBER 13

Get ready for your day with your hair and make up team

Breakfast

Private van transfer to morning runway shows, VIP access to brands & showrooms

Lunch in Shibuya area

Attend afternoon runway shows with select brands

[Option to visit Nezu & Tomo museums]

Dinner at Narisawa (or TBC)

DAY 3OCTOBER 14

TOKYO FASHION WEEK

Get ready for your day with your hair and make up team

Breakfast

Private van transfer to morning runway shows, VIP access to brands & showrooms

Lunch in Shibuya area

Afternoon runway shows, VIP access to brands & showrooms

Cocktails and make-up demo with Japan’s leading make-up artist (TBC)

Dinner at Takazawa or TBC

Attend evening Fashion Week party

DAY 4OCTOBER 15

TOKYO FASHION WEEK

Get ready for your day with your hair and make up team

Early breakfast at hotel

Special tour of Tsukiji market with sushi chef

Private van transfer to morning runway shows, VIP access to brands &

Private sushi-making experience with leading chef in Nishi-Azabu

Dinner at Sushi Yu

Attend evening Fashion Week party /

or alternative activity (cocktails, Jazz, harbor cruise, etc.)

DAY 5OCTOBER 16

TOKYO FASHION WEEK

Get ready for your day with your hair and make up team

Breakfast

Private van transfer to morning runway shows, VIP access to brands & showrooms

Lunch TBC

Afternoon runway shows, shopping with local experts

Private Noh drama workshop and performance with Japan’s leading master

Dinner TBC (La Sora Seed?)

Attend evening Fashion Week party /

or alternative activity (cocktails, Jazz, harbor cruise, etc.)

DAY 6OCTOBER 17

TOKYO FASHION WEEK

Get ready for your day with your hair and make up team

Breakfast

Tailored Tokyo shopping with fashion savvy guides

Lunch TBC

Continue Tokyo shopping with guides

Final Tokyo farewell dinner (TBC)

Attend Fashion Week closing party

DAY 7OCTOBER 18

TOKYO FASHION WEEK

Get ready for your day with your hair and make up team

Breakfast

Check-out of hotel ~ 2nd half of itinerary begins

Private van transfer to Kamakura (or airport for returning guests)

Lunch in Kamakura

Kamakura sightseeing – Daibutsu

Wine and conversation at famous art collector’s home, overlooking Kamakura harbor

Private vans to Hakone, check-in to Kai Hakone

Dinner at Kai Hakone

Relax in the natural hot spring baths

DAY 8OCTOBER 19

KAMAKURA & HAKONE

Breakfast at Ryokan

Private van transfer to Hakone Open Air Sculpture museum

Lunch on way to Kubota museum , local specialty hotpot

Special curator’s tour of the Ichiku Kubota museum – the most beautiful kimono in the world

Return to Kai Hakone

Demonstration of Yosegi wood inlay by local craftsmen

Dinner at ryokan

Enjoy the natural hot spring baths

DAY 9OCTOBER 20

HAKONE

Breakfast at Ryokan

Private van transfer to Odawara Station

Bullet train to Kyoto (First class )

Lunch on arrival at Honke Owariya, Kyoto’s oldest restaurant

Visit the workshop and home of the Hosoo family, who are blending traditional weaving techniques with cutting edge fashion and design. Chance to special order

furniture and items from Hosoo’s partners

Check-in to Ritz Carlton – Kyoto’s first true luxury hotel, opening February 2014

Dressed by local experts in elegant kimono for welcome dinner party

Private dinner party with geisha entertainment at Tempura Yoshikawa

DAY 10OCTOBER 21

HAKONE ~ KYOTO

Breakfast at Ritz

Private van transfer to Sanjusangendo temple

Private van transfer to Miho Museum, designed by I.M. Pei. An architectural tour de force,

with a world-class collection of Silk Road and Japanese art.

Lunch at the Miho

Curator’s Tour of Miho Museum

Return to the Ritz Carlton to relax

Dinner at Kanga-an ~ exquisite Zen vegetarian (Shojin) cuisine in a temple setting

After dinner drinks at the Kanga-an bar

DAY 11OCTOBER 22

KYOTO

Breakfast at the Ritz

Visit Fushimi Inari Grand Shrine

Sake Tasting at brewery in Fushimi district

Lunch TBC

Private Chabana flower arranging class in machiya townhouse

Enjoy afternoon Kabuki performance at Minami-za Theater

Dinner at Soushoku Nakahigashi (or at Sou / Mikaku for finest Kobe beef teppanyaki)

After dinner drinks in restored machiya bar

DAY 12OCTOBER 23

KYOTO

Breakfast at Ritz Carlton

Private van transfer to Higashiyama (“eastern mountain”) area

Traditional Japanese sweet-making experience at one of Kyoto’s oldest sweet shops

Private tea ceremony experience in temple tea room

Lunch on own (guides will recommend)

Option for authentic Maiko henshin (full make-up and dress as a geisha), with photo shoot

Optional: tour of Kiyomizu-dera temple, fine ceramics shopping in neighborhood

Dinner on own (guides will recommend)

Free evening

DAY 13OCTOBER 24

KYOTO

Breakfast at Ritz Carlton

Van transfer to Kodai-ji temple

Private lecture and instruction in Zen meditation by abbot

Lunch at O-men Higashiyama, or on own

Option for guided shopping at Kyoto’s many fine crafts shops (lacquerware, fans, silk, indigo, paper, etc.)

~ Or option to visit temple highlights with guide (Golden Pavilion, Ryoan-ji)

Return to hotel to be dressed in kimono for dinner, make-up by LaMar

Final gala dinner at Yoshida Sansou, a former prince’s palace, with geisha entertainment

DAY 14OCTOBER 25

KYOTO

Breakfast at Ritz Carlton

Private van transfers to Kanku airport for flights home

DAY 15 - DEPARTUREOCTOBER 26

KYOTO

A similar itinerary is being made available to coincide with the Spring 2015 Tokyo Fashion Week. Tentative tour dates are March 16 ~ 30, 2015

and a deposit of $5,000 are being accepted to hold space.

This land only package is nonrefundable and is based on a minimum of 8 people per departure

This itinerary is subject to change. Substitutions may occur, if venue or events are not available.

Travel insurance is also available and advisable (Not available for citizens of Pakistan, Russia & Nigeria).

Air inclusive price is available at an additional cost.

NOTES

Tokyo Fashion Week 2014:

Complete Package Price: Per person is $39,500. Single supplement is an additional $4,580.

Tokyo Fashion Week: Per Person is $28,049. Single supplement is $1,770.

Cultural Japan: Per person is $20,350. Single supplement is $3,125

Tokyo Fashion Week 2015: TBD

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