8 Japanese designers coming up right now

If you want to see the best fashion designers in Japan, you go to Paris — or so the party line goes. For the most part, it’s not an unfair position. Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo (both now in their early eighties, both still actively designing!) have been mainstays on the Paris Fashion Week schedule since they shocked audiences with their clothes in the early 1980s, while more recent exports like Jun Takahashi of Undercover and Chitose Abe of Sacai have established themselves as designers who will define their generation in Japan. Newer still are the LVMH prize winners Doublet and Tomo Koizumi, and CFDA finalist Kozaburo, who have made international waves in recent years, and have shown in Paris, Milan and New York respectively. Read more at i-D.