Rainmaker

A week after ETtech reported that Dunzo may lay off more employees after the April carnage when it cut 300 jobs, more bad news is coming. The quick commerce company is turning to Reliance Retail, its largest investor, for a fresh cash…

Kohichi Watanabe has spent the past season exploring the catacombs of his own mind. Not in a navel gazing or therapeutic way, but by forgetting about the real world—doesn’t that sound inviting?—and instead interpreting the shapes and colors…

The Rainmaker spring show opened with the electronic musician and composer Eiko Ishibashi standing in front of a piano inside Kyoto’s Kyocera Museum of Art wearing a navy tunic over a pair of back trousers. Soon after she began playing, the…

Tokyo’s fashion capital status is well-deserved but the metropolis isn’t Japan’s sole cultural hub. Three hundred and sixty-five kilometers away in Kyoto, Rainmaker’s Kohichi Watanabe and Ryutaro Kishi create inspiring clothes. Their…

A lawyer, politician, and the undisputed master of legal thrillers, John Grisham has authored 28 consecutive number-one bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies across the globe, that were marketable enough to be made into…

Rainmaker’s Kohichi Watanabe and Ryutaro Kishi are entering their blue period. Their spring 2022 collection, presented in a film shot at Kyoto’s famous International Conference Center, spans a spectrum of azure, cerulean, turquoise, and…