Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Junya Watanabe

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Junya Watanabe

Junya Watanabe is a Japanese fashion designer, a protégé of Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. He continues to work for Comme des Garcons: His atelier is located on the second floor of its Tokyo headquarters, and he produces four shows a year in Paris.

I go to see the clothes [I designed] in the shops, and of course they're not perfect, and I see only the imperfections. But it doesn't mean it's a failure-you just think, I wish it could be better than this. Sometimes I cannot achieve what I really want to do in just one collection, so in the following collection I do it again. There are certain things I've been working on for three years.
Western clothes are our everyday wardrobe. But I do not think that it makes much of a difference anymore whether you are Japanese or American or European. — © Junya Watanabe
Western clothes are our everyday wardrobe. But I do not think that it makes much of a difference anymore whether you are Japanese or American or European.
It is actually nonsense to link menswear and travel. But it is important that you have a purpose when you design menswear.
When I design menswear, it is important for me to consider where you wear the clothes and what purpose they serve.
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