Who is giuliano fujiwara

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Your Email. Jan 15, , am. I interviewed him about his present, past, and future. I studied fashion at University in London. I also took economy, psychology and sociology classes. I believe that fashion reflects social movement. I studied subjects like mathematics and science as well as dress making. Yes I have.

I went to international school in Sweden when I was 14 years old. I had a hard time. But now I realize it was a very precious time for me to meet various people. I lived in dorms, my roommates were from Brazil, Russia and America. It is paradoxical for Giuliano Fujiwara to be based in Milan, working as a part of the Italian fashion design community. Characteristically Japanese, Fujiwara seems antithetical to everything Italian. He is introverted while Italians are generally extroverted.

He under-states while Italians exaggerate. He is reserved while Italians are expressive. Nevertheless, he seems comfortable in Milan where he has lived and worked since , first as a designer for Barbas and then creating his own line of menswear.

The Fujiwara style is a curious mixture of American Ivy League, Japanese stark simplicity, and Italian sensitivity in fabrication and workmanship. Take a typical Fujiwara jacket: it has many similarities to the traditional American style—a straight-cut body, the high button stance, small lapels, the jacket length shorter that the Savile Row prototype.

I loved the way JFK looked," he says, remembering his college days when he organized a group to study the manner of dressing. His first job was with a company called Van Jacket.

Although it has long been defunct, Van was a catalyst in propagating the Ivy League look in post-World War II Japan, and its influence is felt even today, as in Fujiwara's case. My clothes are based on the classic look, but I have eliminated inflexible rules," says Fujiwara. Such a method, however, is not Fujiwara's monopoly. Rather, it is the basic principle for most Milanese designers, with Giorgio Armani being the most notable example. What distinguishes the Fujiwara look from the others is its stoic cleanliness and serene simplicity.