Junya Watanabe Menswear Autumn 2026

“There’s a golden era of men’s clothing, fashion type of clothing, to my mind. And it’s, say, 1958 to 1962. Then there is no rock ’n’ roll: there is no Beatles. Then, every person from Jackson Pollock to Miles Davis to Allen Ginsberg to Andy Warhol to John F. Kennedy to Miki Dora wore Ivy League clothes, sliced and diced. Men could only draw from that Ivy League bag of clothing. But everyone put their own stamp on it. This was the zenith, for me: pre rock ’n’ roll.” Those words weren’t said today by Junya Watanabe: regrettably, he wasn’t available for interviews. They were said to me by Shawn Stüssy (of whom more later) back in a 2018 interview we did for