Junya Watanabe
Pushed technical textile experimentation and radical pattern-cutting under his own line within Comme des Garcons.
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Junya Watanabe is a Japanese fashion designer. He was mentored by Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. He continues to work for Comme des Garçons; his atelier is located on the second floor of its Tokyo headquarters, and he produces four shows a year in Paris.
A protege who out-engineered his mentor, he folds high-tech fabrics into garments that behave like transforming machines — the mad scientist of the cutting table.
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Pushed technical textile experimentation and radical pattern-cutting under his own line within Comme des Garcons.
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