You know how patchwork is a big thing in #menswear right now? You don’t? Well it is. It has been for a good while. Can we just pretend that you knew that already? It’ll make the rest of this post make more sense.
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All posts tagged “Junya Watanabe”
Creative mastermind voodoo
Fuck this dude’s louche. Look at him buttoning up that jacket. Look at that face. He’s got a brain full of microfinance packages and big data. He hasn’t been stuffing his face with pickled walnuts while heckling the Christmas Strictly. He’s a proper grown up… Read More
Quietly and simply fresher than the rest
If I lived in NYC I’d be making a nuisance of myself in Gentry on the reg. Esemplare, Needles, Nanamica, Cabourn, The Superior Labor – no doubt, their roster is rapaciously on point. But while browsing Gentry’s latest drops on my computerised system, it wasn’t… Read More
A bit like the ones poor kids wore at school
It’s easy to draw the wrong conclusion when looking at menswear catwalk shows. Take Junya Watanabe’s collection for AW 14. If you examine the following images, you may conclude a number of things. You may feel that jeans covered in patches (like the flowery Clothkits… Read More
Central European lycanthrope
I saw a mouse inside out once. I wasn’t surprised. I’d just thrown a dictionary on it. It wasn’t so much inside out, as it’s insides were out. Turns out the pen is mightier than the sword. Leather bound words are at any rate. Junya… Read More