Seeing as the Junya Watanabe show in Paris this season took place on June 25, this post is indeed pretty late. But, frankly, I had other shit to do in the interim, like appearing in street style videos and you know, going to work. So I’m going to adhere to the golden adage of “better late than never” with this post, especially because it’s a collection that I enjoyed so much. I’ve never really been moved by Junya’s clothes before, and admittedly haven’t been as avid a follower of his as I have been of say, Viktor & Rolf or Paul Smith. But, there was something so refreshingly direct and concise about this collection. In a menswear world where Comme des Garcons sends skull print dresses down the runway and Calvin fucking Klein, he of Macy’s underwear department fame, suddenly wants us to wear crop tops, it’s also kind of nice to see a fully-realized, clear-minded collection that’s actually wearable and still interesting. Junya himself said it, according to Style.com: “They’re clothes I want to wear next summer.” Nothing wrong with that. If I were skilled at Photoshop, I’d make a collage of Calvin Klein in one of his crop tops and insert it here. Maybe next season. More from Junya SS11 (via Style.com photos) after the jump.
Seriously, though, those striped blazers: sign me up.
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