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Japanese designer Shinsaku Maehama believes in that fashion chestnut: what's old is new again. Except he's talking really old. In Jewish folklore, Golem—the
name of Maehama's women's and men's line—describes the raw materials
used to created man. Fitting, then, that his garments are handsewn from
faded materials collected from flea markets and antique shops around
Paris, where he's based. A graduate of the Bunka Fashion University of
Tokyo, Maehama started his career as an assistant to Kenzo Takada in
2002, where he designed uniforms for the Japanese Olympic Team, before
branching out on his own just two years later. For spring, Maehama has
reincarnated more decayed cottons and laces in dusty off-whites, browns
and blacks, which, along with his specialty, wonky waistcoats, are
available at Boutique W (5-39-3 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, +81 3 5778 3433)
and Isetan in Tokyo, and Shimji in Paris (7 rue du Perche, 75003, +33 (0) 1 42 72 10 01). -Erica Crompton (Hint Magazine)
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