Junya Watanabe x Trickers

[TRINI]

Perhaps more suited to SW&D but I found these strangely appealing:

 

[vitaminc]

I saw so many nice items on Men's Ex with Junya Watanabe x Clothing makers, including BB. Unfortunately those items are pretty much Japan only. ;(

 

[barims]

^ Call on a proxy. Otherwise, there's also the likelihood that Dover Street Market here in London will sell them. They should certainly sell these awesome shoes. I'm seeing the new collection next weekend - PM me if you're looking for anything

 

[dkzzzz]

The worst thing about these shoes is the fact that they look very durable and probably going to last for a very long time.

 

[Go Surface]

I dig the red ones.

 

[TheFoo]

I like the dark green ones with the white eyelets, although I wouldn't wear them.

 

[juniper]

Not as bad as Grenson for Kurt Geiger:

http://www.selectism.com/news/2009/0...enson-brogues/

Presumably failing to sell £500 shoes in dark colour suedes has led them to try £300 shoes in light colour suedes.

 

[barims]

I've probably been hitting up too much of the Junya Kool-Aid - his stuff neatly matches my aesthetic - but nevertheless, I'm not exactly getting the hate here. At most, I would've bet on the rubber soles turning some folks off, but it is partly a traveller-themed collection. He also does the most palatable version of Thom Browne right now (though he did shrunken suits pre-Thom, but let's not go there)

 

[Tarmac]

it's mainly just Dkzzzzzzzz who hates trickers.

I like them but I wouldn't pay a premium over regular trickers prices.

 

[GuidoWongolini]

SNAP! I saw these in their shop the other day whilst wandering the streets in HKG!

They are very cool.

 

[Tarmac]

I've seen wilder designs from Tricker's themselves, like bright blue shell cordovan with a natural welt sole. I wonder if these are on any special last, hard to tell from the pics.

 

[barims]

I saw a purple pair and, I think, a Union Jack-based or inspired design in their Jermyn Street window a while back - might look in tomorrow. I agree that they've done crazier on their own, but as presented on the runway, this was the first time I began to consider that Trickers might work with my fits. Junya is playfully eccentric in his work, but his last 3 collections have all had fairly serious shoes as he's been pushing a reinvented retro dandy kind of style in a way that mostly makes real world sense. Still, these are gonna be crazy expensive. PG, presumably, you were at eYe Junya Watanabe Man - what were the pricetags like, both for the shoes and for anything else you saw?

 

[pejsek]

These are all great. I particularly like the white ones (could really liven up a chalk stripe suit). Don't forget to have fun with your clothes sometimes. cdg has always been strong on shoes. I have a pair of black mesh lace-ups from the early nineties buried in storage somewhere. I really should ferret them out one of these days; perfect for showing off your socks.

 

[acidboy]

I like the blue ones, and I'd wear them too.

 

[awxg]

I like the green ones. They'd look great with off-white cords.