digital collection

Throughout all of human history the Japanese have always been a stylish bunch. They encourage play with sheer, proportion, and textiles. I respond more to Japanese style aesthetics (Rei, Yohji, Issey) and I see that unlike American fashion, men aren’t afraid to play with this volume and sheer.

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Contemporary Images below from the great fashion blog style-arena.jp.

Lord of Ring: Return of Ear Ring? Yes. Tortoise Shell Hipster Glasses? Yes.

Patchwork. Exposing what's there. Not a fan of the plaid though. It reminds me of a tree in going into the fall time.

There are so many great ideas here.

Volume & Embroidered Jeans , look at those shoes too.

Cold topic. Hot Topic take notes.

White murse? Daring. It needs more sheer.

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I love the subtle details such as the saturated rectangles and small squares on the back of the trench coats. Raf is losing the distinction between the Raf Simons line and the Jil Sander’s line as we see the two collections virtually merging in theory of their design aesthetics, such as dealing with the idea of fragmentation of man through clothing. The path Raf Simons will take to reconcile of seperate these two lines will be an interesting development.

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