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Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Junya Watanabe Men's Autumn/Winter 2006

6 August 2020 • By Tim Blanks

BoF’s Editor-at-Large connects the dots between the designer’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection and a mesmerising 2006 meditation on ‘Taxi Driver’ anti-hero Travis Bickle, which probed the heart of America’s darkness.

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Tim's Take

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Junya Watanabe Men's Autumn/Winter 2006

BoF’s Editor-at-Large connects the dots between the designer’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection and a mesmerising 2006 meditation on ‘Taxi Driver’ anti-hero Travis Bickle, which probed the heart of America’s darkness.
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Ready-to-Wear Autumn 2020

Junya Watanabe’s Fever Dream

1 March 2020 • By Tim Blanks

His woman clearly meant business. Dominance and submission demand an organised mind.

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Ready-to-Wear Autumn 2020

Junya Watanabe’s Fever Dream

His woman clearly meant business. Dominance and submission demand an organised mind.
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Junya Watanabe's Transmogrified Trench Coats

7 October 2019 • By Tim Blanks

The designer's scalpel-sharp dissections made for spectacular reworkings of achingly familiar components.

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Junya Watanabe's Transmogrified Trench Coats

The designer's scalpel-sharp dissections made for spectacular reworkings of achingly familiar components.
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Nowhere Men at Junya Watanabe

25 June 2019 • By Tim Blanks

The clothes had an airiness, a freshness and an uncontrived nonchalance that he infused with a yearning for freedom.

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Nowhere Men at Junya Watanabe

The clothes had an airiness, a freshness and an uncontrived nonchalance that he infused with a yearning for freedom.
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Junya Watanabe’s Cute/Not Cute Hybrids

3 March 2019 • By Tim Blanks

There was a quiet ingenuity at work, but the source material — houses dresses — had a utilitarian dullness that levelled rather than lifted the collection.

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Junya Watanabe’s Cute/Not Cute Hybrids

There was a quiet ingenuity at work, but the source material — houses dresses — had a utilitarian dullness that levelled rather than lifted the collection.
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Human Sustainability at Junya Watanabe

20 January 2019 • By Tim Blanks

Nothing reverberated with the shock of the new but the notion of creative circularity wouldn’t go amiss.

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Human Sustainability at Junya Watanabe

Nothing reverberated with the shock of the new but the notion of creative circularity wouldn’t go amiss.
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Junya Watanabe's Hard Rock Romance

17 October 2018 • By Tim Blanks

The collection was appropriately rough and ragged but what registered most was its playfulness.

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Junya Watanabe's Hard Rock Romance

The collection was appropriately rough and ragged but what registered most was its playfulness.
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Junya Watanabe's Special Forces

25 June 2018 • By Tim Blanks

The brand's latest collection had a innocent, boyish, summery edge, but there was an inescapable suggestion that, when the games stop, the shit gets real.

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Junya Watanabe's Special Forces

The brand's latest collection had a innocent, boyish, summery edge, but there was an inescapable suggestion that, when the games stop, the shit gets real.
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Gnomic Proclamations at Junya Watanabe

4 March 2018 • By Tim Blanks

The collection had a clear motive, but the designer needs to bring back the creativity.

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Gnomic Proclamations at Junya Watanabe

The collection had a clear motive, but the designer needs to bring back the creativity.
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Connotations of Conflict at Junya Watanabe

30 September 2017 • By Tim Blanks

The show began in birdsong but evoked the often violent disruptions in the natural order that have come to preoccupy us in the past year.

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Connotations of Conflict at Junya Watanabe

The show began in birdsong but evoked the often violent disruptions in the natural order that have come to preoccupy us in the past year.
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