Don’t get too close to Junya Watanabe’s SS27 collection
Japanese designer Junya Watanabe presented his Spring/Summer 2027 collection at Paris Fashion Week, anchoring the season’s unofficial Japan day alongside Comme des Garçons and other avant-garde houses. The show paired fitted black and pink athletic base layers with dramatic metallic armor-like elements: oversized spiked breastplates, stud-covered gloves, eyelet-studded belts, and a chandelier headpiece worn by R&B artist Ciara. Thematic references to punks, witches, and cyborgs unified the collection through witchy silhouettes and threatening protective wear that transformed models into armored figures. The presentation emphasized contrast between soft, form-fitting understructure and aggressive, jagged metalwork, delivering theatrical spectacle and dark aesthetic tension to the Paris schedule.
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