Junya Watanabe Womens FW11

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[rider]

i feel like he got inside my head, this is what makes me crave fashion. i react to this like no other designer does for me, i guess everyone has their one, that really moves them to utter goo, it just hits a note. my best of the season bar none. thanks junya i cant wait for fall (and that says something because i am so sick of cold weather)!

[thehouseofdis]

I agree. I wish his men's line was more like his women's collection.

I love the variations and play on the classic motorcycle jacket as well as the knit pieces and styling.

[Faust]

What the fuck, Junya? Why do women get this and we get some hipster squire shit?

[christianef]

amazing.

[Johnny]

This is quite a safe, almost classical collection from Junya. I'm a bit surprised it's so popular, but I suppose it's the black and biker jackets etc. It's most impressive when you see the backs of the jackets in particular. The cutting is very interesting, like the classic idea of Balenciaga and even old-fashioned Dior - plays on volume and proportion through structure and cutting. A move away from his more recent draping stuff. It's very elegant, almost chic.

The show was played to a recital of Ophelia by Rimbaud (in French) and some strange minimalistic music. It was quite bleak. No reprise at the end where all the models come back on together; it just stopped when the poem stopped.

Like some have alluded to, there are plenty of designers who do what people here imagine would be the "male equivalent" of this, and in any case Junya has done it already himself (the biker collection that Faust has some pieces from), so unfortunately it will just be us hipsters in his menswear for the moment....

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a few detail shots

[Faust]

Don't want to turn into a menswear discusson, but I don't know of anyone who does the biker stuff the way Junya does, so I don't see an equivalent out there. Johnny, I know you have a direct phone line to Junya by now, but you've been getting your stuff since after 07 - that's just not fair ;-) .

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i don't know, but i am not completely sold by this even after seeing the detail shots.

awaiting CdG...

[michael_kard]

This. I will never be able to wear these boots. FML