Junya

Junya Watanabe, fall 2022Photo: Courtesy of Junya WatanabeIf there’s one thing I don’t need, it’s another jacket. Outerwear takes up at least half of my closet, and a fair bit of my teenager’s as well (shh, don’t tell him). With so many…

Tuesday, June 21 is a buffer between the all-digital day in Milan for those who are commuting to the French capital. Woolmark Prize finalist Egonlab and the LVMH Prize long-listed Bluemarble are both live on the schedule today.Wednesday,…

A fierce, monumental cape, an almost pyramidal fusion of many motorcycle jackets materialized, and then disappeared. That was the opener for Junya Watanabe’s fall women’s collection, a strong distillation of all his talent, in a video piece…

From Tokyo, Junya Watanabe treated the internet to gilded draping, filmy fabrics, disrupted tailoring—and to printed collaborations with Japanese, Chinese, Nepalese, and Thai contemporary artists in Asia and around the world. He called it…