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dressed in garments inspired by baroque and Victorian styles

Junya Watanabe’s Spring/Summer 2017 collection explores the beautiful relationship between Berlin’s underground

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and Takatomo Ariga ignited a counterculture

SS17 Blackmeans Deconstructed Laced Up Shirt Julius dressed in garments inspired byBlackmeans is an English transliteration of burakumin, a term from Japans feudal era used during the Edo period to denote marginalized communities outside the caste system. Jobs such as leatherworking and tanning are stigmatized for their association with death and deemed religiously impure. An irony that mirrors how countercultures have long turned rejection into identity. By adopting this name, founders Yujiro Komatsu, Masatomo Ariga, and Takatomo