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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    Matsuda dies at 74



    R.I.P. Terrible month for fashion, indeed. Probably not many of you remember his clothes, and I only got a glimpse of it, but what I saw was great. He used to have a store on Fifth Ave downtown, near the Paul Smith store. In a way, him and Kenzo Takada paved the way for Yohji and Rei.

    Mitsuhiro Matsuda Dies in Japan






    May 28th, 2008 @ 6:54 PM

    Mitsuhiro Matsuda, one of the half dozen most important Japanese fashion designers, has died in Japan aged 74 from liver cancer.



    Known for his soft, yet structured, architectural sense of
    clothing, Matsuda was a fashion forerunner whose unique, naturalistic
    and earthy color sense influenced many other designers who followed
    him.



    Probably more than any other designer, Matsuda blazed a path in
    sunglasses with his Japanese sensibility and high tech pop aesthetic.
    His vintage shades remain cult collector items for connoisseurs of
    sunglasses.



    Matsuda died May 17 in his hometown of Tokyo after a long illness.
    Samuel Beckett like, he was buried on May 20, before any announcement
    of his death.



    Matsuda, whose parents owned a company that made kimonos, was born
    in Tokyo in 1934. An ambitious youth, he studied at Japan?s famed Bunka
    school of fashion where his fellow classmates included Kenzo Takada and
    Junko Koshino.



    In the mid-eighties he was the architects? fashion designer,
    admired for his sense of structured silhouette, suits memorable for
    their arty nuances and crisp white shirts with unique façade detailing.



    ?I make clothes for people who dream, yet who want to look credible,? Matsuda once told the author of this obituary.



    Perhaps his lack of English hemmed him back, and his commitment to
    a particularly understated oeuvre prevented him from winning a larger
    audience among the mass public, but he will be remembered as a
    distinctive Eastern voice, who foretold the marriage of fashion and
    architecture, which is so prevalent today.



    In 1964, Matsuda and Kenzo journeyed to France together on a cargo
    ?cruise? ship, beginning a journey that would launch his career in the
    West. He stayed just three years in Europe, before returning to Japan,
    where he founded his own fashion company, Nicole Co. Ltd in 1967.



    He continued to show his signature men?s collections in Europe
    until a decade ago, winning plaudits for his classy vision of arty
    chic.



    Arguably his greatest clout and reach was with sunglasses, and his
    vintage items are cult collectibles on ebay and ecommerce sites. In
    1998, The New York Times even noted that the hip-hop idol Sean (Puffy)
    Combs, now P. Diddy, rapped about Matsuda sunglasses in a video.



    Deficit omne quod nasciture.


    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

    StyleZeitgeist Magazine
  • awlouie
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2007
    • 302

    #2
    Re: Matsuda dies at 74



    Thanksfor the post Faust...Iwas inTokyo back in 1992 to visit a friend who was a fashion model at the time; I was fortunate enough to seehim in Matsuda'sfashion showand Ihad alsovisited his boutique.Matsuda's clothes were very cleanwith beautiful details...very elegant!




    I hadoften wondered what ever happened to him...Another sad day for the world of fashion indeed! [51][64]

    "Fashions fade, style is eternal." —Yves Saint Laurent

    "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it."
    -Bruce Lee

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    • aruva
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2007
      • 171

      #3
      Re: Matsuda dies at 74



      Thanks Faust for the post .




      Another wonderful designer passes away. Mitsuhiro Matsuda RIP [51]

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      • Avantster
        ¤¤¤
        • Sep 2006
        • 1983

        #4
        Re: Matsuda dies at 74



        R.I.P. Thanks for posting Faust. Truly sad to see one of the original 'Tokyo Six', if you will, pass.

        let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.

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        • ekusah
          Junior Member
          • Jul 2015
          • 3

          #5
          So not meaning to resurrect the dead but does anyone own anything by Matsuda?

          I've been looking for a parka that he made with Canada goose, but damn, they're rare.

          Originally posted by Faust View Post
          R.I.P. Terrible month for fashion, indeed. Probably not many of you remember his clothes, and I only got a glimpse of it, but what I saw was great. He used to have a store on Fifth Ave downtown, near the Paul Smith store. In a way, him and Kenzo Takada paved the way for Yohji and Rei.

          Mitsuhiro Matsuda Dies in Japan






          May 28th, 2008 @ 6:54 PM

          Mitsuhiro Matsuda, one of the half dozen most important Japanese fashion designers, has died in Japan aged 74 from liver cancer.



          Known for his soft, yet structured, architectural sense of
          clothing, Matsuda was a fashion forerunner whose unique, naturalistic
          and earthy color sense influenced many other designers who followed
          him.



          Probably more than any other designer, Matsuda blazed a path in
          sunglasses with his Japanese sensibility and high tech pop aesthetic.
          His vintage shades remain cult collector items for connoisseurs of
          sunglasses.



          Matsuda died May 17 in his hometown of Tokyo after a long illness.
          Samuel Beckett like, he was buried on May 20, before any announcement
          of his death.



          Matsuda, whose parents owned a company that made kimonos, was born
          in Tokyo in 1934. An ambitious youth, he studied at Japan?s famed Bunka
          school of fashion where his fellow classmates included Kenzo Takada and
          Junko Koshino.



          In the mid-eighties he was the architects? fashion designer,
          admired for his sense of structured silhouette, suits memorable for
          their arty nuances and crisp white shirts with unique façade detailing.



          ?I make clothes for people who dream, yet who want to look credible,? Matsuda once told the author of this obituary.



          Perhaps his lack of English hemmed him back, and his commitment to
          a particularly understated oeuvre prevented him from winning a larger
          audience among the mass public, but he will be remembered as a
          distinctive Eastern voice, who foretold the marriage of fashion and
          architecture, which is so prevalent today.



          In 1964, Matsuda and Kenzo journeyed to France together on a cargo
          ?cruise? ship, beginning a journey that would launch his career in the
          West. He stayed just three years in Europe, before returning to Japan,
          where he founded his own fashion company, Nicole Co. Ltd in 1967.



          He continued to show his signature men?s collections in Europe
          until a decade ago, winning plaudits for his classy vision of arty
          chic.



          Arguably his greatest clout and reach was with sunglasses, and his
          vintage items are cult collectibles on ebay and ecommerce sites. In
          1998, The New York Times even noted that the hip-hop idol Sean (Puffy)
          Combs, now P. Diddy, rapped about Matsuda sunglasses in a video.



          Deficit omne quod nasciture.


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