| Junya Watanabe is a Japanese fashion designer, originally the protege of Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo. In 1987, he was promoted to chief designer of Tricot knitwear line and then moved on to design for the Comme Des Garcons Homme line. Starting in 1992, he has worked under his own name as part of Comme des Garcons. He started his own line under the Comme Des Garcons name called 'Junya Watanabe Comme Des Garcons' in 1993 and began showing in Paris that same year. |
