A Retrospective: Junya Watanabe (2000-Present)

[travolta]

love that last pic on post #3..i'm so curious to how he made these things--CAD? maybe it's a similar process as miyake's pleats please?

 

[meme527]

more spring 2001

SS 2001

 

[meme527]

spring 2001, episode 3

ss 2001

 

[arlekindearrabal]

as much as i like garishness, bright colors and simplicity of cut... somehow this isnt my favorite junya collection... thanks meme

 

[meme527]

last 4 from ss 2001

so different from the season before. what is watanabe trying to do here?
any thoughts?

meme

 

[mirrra]

so many ideas in each collection... ss 2000,

 

[mirrra]

more ss 2000

 

[sea of stitches]

jeesh, i would love to own all of that fall 2000 collection! ss2000 is quite a treat as well. ss2001 doesn't exite me as much, but i do enjoy those pearl necklines.

thanks for the pictures meme and mirrra

travolta, i am also curious how they were made. pm me if you find out, please.

 

[meme527]

oh covet, covet....

 

[meme527]

fall 2001

and now for something completely different...
fall 2001

 

[mishahoi]

those first dresses remind me of those accordion tissue table decorations you find at hawaiian parties... like a pineapple XD

 

[meme527]

more fall 2001

 

[travolta]

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Ensemble, fall/winter 2000–2001
Junya Watanabe (Japanese, born 1961), for Comme des Garçons (French, founded 1969)
Ivory polyester chiffon and gray and silver polyester velvet
Purchase, Richard Martin Bequest, 2001 (2001.742a,b)
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[font=geneva,arial,sans-serif]As a designer for Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe excelled by fusing Kawakubo's confrontational approach to traditional form with his own love of hyperbole and ironic historicism. Impressed by his interest in tactile manipulation, Rei Kawakubo helped Watanabe found his own fashion house, which currently offers some of the most avant-garde constructions in Japanese fashion.

The ruff's accelerated inflation to shoulder-wide dimension in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries did not anticipate Junya Watanabe's torso-encompassing rendering of the style. To accomplish the extraordinary scale of his ruff, Watanabe required a polyester chiffon that could hold its shape. No silk organza was able to do so. Despite all its reliance on technological innovation for the fabric, this design, from Watanabe's "Techno Couture" collection, was stitched together by hand.

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[meme527]

fall 2001, III

 

[meme527]

fall 2001, again. chanel suits!

 

[travolta]

those first dresses remind me of those accordion tissue table decorations you find at hawaiian parties... like a pineapple XD

i think he keeps revisiting origami and folding techniques. in the f/w 2005 collection, the skirts resemble window blinds w/ cords, or drapes..

 

[meme527]

last fall '01

 

[cbcb]

He's the owner of a shop in Cologne that sells CdG/Junya/Carpe Diem. If you think he looks scary, well, wait until you meet him; every time I've been in that store, I've ended up fleeing in terror, usually at the point where he started stripping off all his clothes and changing into the pieces that I'd pulled off the rack to try myself. (You probably think I'm joking. I'm not.)

Whoa! That's almost too much information. Hmm... I knew there was something about him! (Thanks for the hilarious detail.)

 

[screenage]

meme I love the last jacket, you can see quite a bit of hard work in some of her clothes.

 

[nqth]

screenage, Junya is he :-)