Thanks for the pic droogist, very interesting. I didn't know abot the Speedo collab!! Think I might pass on that one though.
This whole multi-labelling thing is something that 's now talked about quite a lot - the article and pic are proof of that - but I suppose that's really only because CDG have expanded the brand management concept into the "west". They've always had this multitude of brands in Japan, and in fact that's where most of them still are based. I think it's a great and fairly unique way of selling clothes, and however cynical we might be tempted to be about it, it is linked by a genuinely creative force or ideal. There is an abundance of ideas that have "sprung" out of her head, from all of the collections she's done in the past 30 years or whatever it is. I think that all of the different labels take different aspects of those ideas, of the comme aesthetic, and develop those in more detail.
Nqth, I'm not sure homme homme is around any more. I've certainly never heard of it being sold anywhere other than out of Japan. Homme Duex is a suit and formal wear line right? They sell this in DSM (never seen it in Paris). Never seen Noir either, sound interesting from what softie says abot it.
On you trip around the universe, did you buy anything softie? Just out of interest, what did you think of Junya Man?
This whole multi-labelling thing is something that 's now talked about quite a lot - the article and pic are proof of that - but I suppose that's really only because CDG have expanded the brand management concept into the "west". They've always had this multitude of brands in Japan, and in fact that's where most of them still are based. I think it's a great and fairly unique way of selling clothes, and however cynical we might be tempted to be about it, it is linked by a genuinely creative force or ideal. There is an abundance of ideas that have "sprung" out of her head, from all of the collections she's done in the past 30 years or whatever it is. I think that all of the different labels take different aspects of those ideas, of the comme aesthetic, and develop those in more detail.
Nqth, I'm not sure homme homme is around any more. I've certainly never heard of it being sold anywhere other than out of Japan. Homme Duex is a suit and formal wear line right? They sell this in DSM (never seen it in Paris). Never seen Noir either, sound interesting from what softie says abot it.
On you trip around the universe, did you buy anything softie? Just out of interest, what did you think of Junya Man?
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