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Junya Watanabe is a Japanese fashion designer originally the protégé of Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. Born in Fukushima Japan in 1961 he went on to attend Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo graduating in 1984. At this time he began his apprenticeship at Comme des Garçons as a patternmaker. 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.
