Sacai

In 2009, Japanese designer Chitose Abe made her debut at Paris Fashion Week, where she unveiled the men's collection of her avant-garde brand, Sacai. Prior to the brand's initial launch in 1999, Abe honed her technical skills and keen sense of experimentation while working under Rei Kawakubo and Junya Watanabe as a pattern cutter for Comme des Garçons. Abe's incredible dexterity and unrivalled ability to combine heterogeneous fabrics and textures to form harmonious, elegant and atypical silhouettes quickly established Sacai as one of the fashion industry's heavyweights. The brand's hybrid designs are distinguished by meticulous attention to technical detail, while unusual fabric combinations and outsized proportions result in unique pieces that are both modern and timeless. It goes without saying that Sacai is now at the cutting edge of fringe elegance thanks to its perpetual questioning of the status quo.