On August 21, the final screening of the "National High School Fashion Design Championship (Fashion Koshien 2016)" was held at Hirosaki Civic Center (Shimohiragincho, Hirosaki City).

This year's 16th competition is a national competition of fashion design contests by high school students. There were 3190 submissions from 42 prefectures, of which 35 submissions from 32 schools passed the initial screening and faced the final screening in fashion show format.

This year's winning work is an "inorganic lake" designed by Momoe Sato (2 years) from Seiryo High School (Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture). "When I was in trouble, I came up with an idea and expressed an idea of what happens if people's feelings spread like ripples," says Sato. It was said that he used about 1000 clear files and connected them one by one like a wave. Mizuho Ogawa (3 years), who served as a model, made the most of his 10 years of ballet experience and made an appeal with the runway that was newly established this year and is about 10 meters long.

"Modern Oiran" at Shibata Women's High School (Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture), which won the runner-up, won the Kirari Award, which was decided by the participating teachers, the Audience Award by the audience vote, and the Judge's Special Award. The venue was excited. Saara Koyamauchi (3rd year), who designed the product, said, “I like Japanese design,” and commented that he was “happy” to win the first four titles in the competition. Model Kazumi Ono (2 years) reveals his hard work, saying, “I learned how to walk and gestures by watching online videos.”

Judge AKI said, “Because the runway was newly made, not only the work but also the performance of the model was evaluated. Shibata Girls' High School won the award for the entire team” speak. “The 1st place Seiryu High School is not a gorgeous fashion compared to the 2nd place, but Judge Chief Yoko Otsuka won the award for steady efforts to make each file carefully. It led to.”