I♥Junya Watanabe

创建于2007-08-06     组长： 噗@

Junya Watanabe (born Tokyo, 1961) is the much-feted protégé of Rei Kawakubo. Graduating from Bunka Fashion Institute in 1984, he immediately joined Comme des Garçons as a pattern-cutter. By 1987 he was designing their Tricot line. He presented his first solo collection in 1992 at the Tokyo collections; a year later, he showed at Paris Fashion Week. (Although designing under his own name, he is still employed by Comme des Garçons, who fund and produce the collections.) In 2001, Watanabe presented his first menswear collection in Paris. Eschewing the intense craftsmanship of his womenswear, Watanabe prefers to twist simple men’s garments. Part of the new generation of Japanese designers, Watanabe looks set to be as influential as his celebrated predecessors.