Junya Watanabe was born in Japan in 1961, and studied at the Bunkafukuso Gakuin Institute in Tokyo. He apprenticed under Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, first as a pattern maker, and then enventually a designer. Under Rei Kawakubo's patronage, Junya Watanabe struck out on his own in 1994 to launch his own label.

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