![]() “My reaction is always, ‘Are you really going to wear that your whole life?’” “I’m not interested in talking to people who go off about a piece of clothing being ‘good for 10 years’ or ‘timeless’ or something like that,” he says. “I hate the way men go off about how something ‘has to be’ one way or the other,” he says. I do always tell myself that I’d like to be able to apply a woman’s lens to seeing things.” In some sense, Miyashita still feels a sense of rigidity that exists in the male perception of garments, which has continued to propagate even as menswear rapidly expands beyond its mold of three-piece suits and traditional tailoring. “I do like looking at women’s clothing,” Miyashita responds. “Don’t you think it comes down to approach, is all?” Takahashi asks. ![]() I don’t really think I can do it,” he says. But would he ever try it? “I have often thought to myself that I’d like to try, but I probably won’t get around to it. ![]() Throughout the years, Miyashita has never dabbled with designing for women in the same way that Takahashi has designed for men. Perhaps that’s why Miyashita’s name can seem completely alien, even amongst the most fashion-savvy crowds. ![]() Sometimes relegated to the fringes of the mainstream fashion establishment, menswear designers rely less on favorable reviews from fashion editors than on the community that have been built through independent style magazines, like the one that Miyashita once worked at, or, more recently, via the internet. ![]()
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