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fight club; Four radical designers from Japan aren't content with the status quo.(Jun Takahashi, Tao Kurihara, Junya Watanabe, Rei Kawakubo)
Byline: Sarah Mower
We are the Comme des Garcons army," says designer Rei Kawakubo fiercely. "Staff is too boring a word. We are co-combatants." This is how she describes Junya Watanabe and Tao Kurihara, the two designers she trained in Tokyo and brought to the Paris front to show their poetic, destabilizing, often incendiary clothes alongside hers. Kawakubo, the most revered, notoriously impenetrable mind in avant-garde fashion, sees herself as a symbolic leader of allied forces-the people who work for her, like-minded _creative friends, and the freethinkers who buy her clothes-engaged in a perpetual war of independence. "When I began, I was fighting the ...
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- Magazine article from: W Kerwin, Jessica May 1, 2005 700+ words
...humility Either way, designer Tao Kurihara is a prime example. She...for her talented protege Junya Watanabe, gave the 31-year-old...years--as an assistant to Junya Watanabe and, for the past four...independently, as with Junya Watanabe," Kawakubo writes in an...
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- Magazine article from: WWD March 7, 2005 700+ words
...Once upon a time Rei Kawakubo gave her talented protege Junya Watanabe a shot at designing his own collection, and now Watanabe...a good turn, too. In the house's showroom on Sunday, Tao Kurihara, who has worked in Watanabe's studio in Tokyo for seven...
- THE MOODY VIEWS.(Junya Watanabe; Ann Demeulemeester; Vivienne Westwood)
- Magazine article from: WWD February 28, 2007 700+ words
...are intricate, witchy and slouchy. Junya Watanabe: Hausfrau and biker babe are about...in the able, avant-garde hands of Junya Watanabe, they worked together without an ounce...knitted tank in chiffon. Caption(s): Junya Watanabe / Vivienne Westwood / Ann Demeulemeester...
- He for she. (Fashion Scoops).(Junya Watanabe's year-old men's wear line is...
- Magazine article from: WWD August 21, 2002 700+ words
Junya Watanabe's year-old men's wear line is being reinterpreted for women...director of Comme des Garacons, said. "It'll be based on the Junya Watanabe Man concept, but for women." The collection, still unnamed, will...
- PARIS CHANGING COURSES; CHANGE CAN BE GOOD, AND IT PROVED TO BE AT JUNYA...
- Magazine article from: WWD March 12, 2001 700+ words
Junya Watanabe: Last season Deauville, this season, Chanel tweeds -- clearly Junya Watanabe has taken his French lessons to heart. Of course, his take on tweed played like a wacky schoolgirl let loose in her mom's closet with a pair of scissors...
- PRETTY IDEAS AND ACTIVE IMAGINATIONS; ALBERT KRIEMLER, AS EVER, FOCUSED ON...
- Magazine article from: WWD October 9, 2003 700+ words
...skinniest strings, and sometimes wrapped and rewrapped around the neck for a bit of provocation. Junya Watanabe: Who knew that Junya Watanabe's muse had been hiding her assets for all these years, pumping iron in her secret lair? Well...
- Tweedy High.(Junya Watanabe's fall collection offers shabby gentility)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: WWD March 26, 2003 700+ words
PARIS - Shabby gentility was the theme of Junya Watanabe's winning fall collection, and few materials take to that notion quite as well as tweed. He did heavy wool dresses in houndstooth...
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- Magazine article from: WWD October 4, 2002 700+ words
...if you've got it, why not flaunt it? That's what fashion is all about. Junya Watanabe: Naughty girls have never looked as nice as they did at Junya Watanabe's garden party gone wrong. And it was so right. In a coy twist on the season...