Collection : Junya Watanabe - Women

Trained by Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons workshops before launching his own line under the parent company, Junya Watanabe occupies a unique and irreplaceable position in the landscape of contemporary Japanese fashion: that of a technical genius who transformed absolute technical mastery into a personal and immediately identifiable creative language. Where Kawakubo works from philosophical and emotional concepts, Watanabe starts from the object itself, from clothing in its most concrete and everyday reality, to dissect it, understand it in its smallest construction details, and reassemble it according to a new logic that reveals what no one had yet seen in it.

The Burberry trench coat, the leather Perfecto jacket, the Levi's 501 jeans are all starting points that Junya Watanabe treats with the same rigorous method and radical freedom: complete disassembly, analysis of each component, reconstruction in proportions, volumes, and associations that the conventional logic of clothing would never have produced. The complex patchworks that blend fragments of these revisited classics demonstrate a technical mastery that far exceeds what most haute couture houses are capable of achieving, while technical materials borrowed from the world of workwear and outdoor wear introduce a functionality and resistance into the fashion vocabulary that delightfully contrast with the rigor of English tailoring and the attitude of punk. The resulting hybrid silhouettes are aimed at women who consider clothing as much an intellectual structure as an aesthetic one, those for whom dressing is an act of thought as much as an act of seduction.

At Actuel B, we offer a selection from the Junya Watanabe women's collection, available in our stores in Avignon and Arles, as well as on our website. Pieces from the main collection and collaborations are presented by teams trained in the technical and conceptual universe of the house, with the personalized advice that characterizes our approach to multi-brand luxury.

• Junya Watanabe

• Dresses
• Pants
• Skirts