Quite often designers take it upon themselves to style their own runway shows, and often their styling pans out to be better than the work of a professional stylist. Dazed & Confused Japan has commissioned 11 designers to style a few of their S/S09 looks for the Styling Special issue. Here you can see some of the images exclusively shot for Dazed Japan.

[Bernhard Willhelm]
Styling & Model Bernhard Willhelm
Photography Theo Mercier

[Band of Outsiders]
Photography and Styling Scott Sternberg

[Cassette Playa]
Styling & Art Direction Carri Munden
Photography Takashi Kamei
Hair Charlie le Mindu using Fudge
Styling Assistant Kylie Griffiths
Retouching Shinji Uezumi
Models Alex Jerny at Premier, Tom

[Christian Wijnants]
Styling Christian Wijnants
Photography Frederik Heyman
Styling Assistant Izabela Skowronska
Make-Up Sigried Volders
Model Sabrina Fischer

[Damir Doma]
Styling Damir Doma, Samuel Drira
Photography Sybille Walter
Hair & Make-Up Carole Colombani
Models Guillaume Dolmans, Wiktor H, Ludwig Persik at Bananas

[Jeremy Scott]
Photography & Styling Jeremy Scott
Hair John D
Make-Up Dawn Broussard
Model Liberty Ross
Photographic & Styling Asisstants Lauren Conrad, Whitney Port

[Ksubi]
Styling Dan Single, George Gorrow, Pip Edwards
Photography Jordan Graham
Hair & Make-Up Sarah Damichi
Photographic Assistant Jeff Yiu
Model Elyse Taylor

[Mikio Sakabe]
Styling Mikio Sakabe, Shuen Jen-Fang
Photography Daniel Sannwald
Hair & Make-Up Takahide Ohno
Model Anais