Plain surfaces are overrated, Junya Watanabe seemed to say with his spring men’s collection, shown in a concrete parking garage plastered with colorful graffiti and worn by a cast of heavily tattooed models, to which the designer added more ink on limbs, faces and necks.
Junya Watanabe’s strength is in the relentless reiteration of a single notion or motif, stuttering through synonyms for a particular term in fashion’s vocabulary. It’s an idea he often turns to in his shows—taking an archetypal item or technique, and then exhausting it.
New faces, sunlit skin, and effortless style—discover Callum, Gabriel, Jed, and George in this exclusive gallery for Parasol, shot by Rob Tennent. A fresh take on Australian swimwear.
David Bates II arrives in Los Angeles with ambition and purpose, captured through the cinematic lens of Tony Duran in a striking editorial where grit meets beauty.