Junya Watanabe (born 1961) is a Japanese fashion designer. He was mentored by Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. He continues to work for Comme des Garçons; his atelier is located on the second floor of its Tokyo headquarters, and he produces four shows a year in Paris.
Biography
Born in Fukushima, Japan in 1961, Watanabe attended Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, graduating in 1984. Soon after, he began his apprenticeship at Comme des Garçons as a patternmaker.[2][3]
In 1987, he was promoted to chief designer of Tricot knitwear line and then moved on to design for the Comme Des Garçons Homme line.
Starting in 1992, he has worked under his own name as part of Comme des Garçons, debuting his first at the concourse of Tokyo's Ryogoku Station