AW07 Number Nine “Love, God, Murder” Leather Chore Jacket Y/PROJECT Watanabe dismantled classic clothing staples

Watanabe dismantled classic clothing staples before reconstructing them through his origami-like approach

eventually shifting into warmer hues like coral

waist-length upside-down jackets

Watanabe asked his design team to write from the heart on the themes of love

AW07 Number Nine “Love, God, Murder” Leather Chore Jacket Y/PROJECT Watanabe dismantled classic clothing staplesFew designers capture the melancholic beauty of Americana through a Japanese lens as convincingly as Takahiro Miyashita. In Number Nines Autumn Winter 2007 Love, God, Murder, he used the mythology of Johnny Cash to explore faith, love, and violence. Cashs 2000 compilation of the same name framed the show and guided its themes of sin, punishment, and redemption while anchoring the collection in American music history. This narrative lived inside the