If common sense would suggest these have limited interest, the designer has pointed out before that people are very happy to experiment beyond black (although those pieces too were hardly boring). Aizawa goes through phases of favoring bold prints, and today’s lush and color-saturated botanicals might have been his boldest yet.

These “coincidences,” as he also called them, were a way of integrating pieces that wouldn’t normally be found in either athletic attire or streetwear think classic shirting adapted with technical straps and pleated shorts that looked more like skorts. The Tokyo-based designer explained that he imbues pieces with a “discord ambiance,” which might mean anything from a T-shirt boasting overlaid letters spelling nothing to Gore-Tex outerwear paired with linen pants. Today, the covered-yet-open-air terrace of a Sorbonne University building was a game-changer what a difference a breeze makes! The models didn’t need to be trail running or BMX biking two of the extreme sports that inspired Yosuke Aizawa this season for the audience to imagine guys wearing his high-impact looks off the runway. Despite being a label so linked to the Druid force of nature shirt besides I will buy this outdoors, White Mountaineering’s Paris shows have only ever taken place indoors, which always felt a little incongruous.

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