Stein Tokyo Spring 2025 Collection

Stein Tokyo Spring 2025 Collection

A showroom appointment with Kiichiro Asakawa is always good fun. The 37-year-old Stein designer, who is tall, with a mass of curly hair and tinted spectacles, combs through his clothing rails at light speed, excitedly pulling out a leather jacket or cashmere coat and explaining the considerable thought that he put into fabricating each piece. … Read more

Stein Tokyo Fall 2024 Collection

Stein Tokyo Fall 2024 Collection

There has been much talk in fashion recently about designers doing away with lofty abstract concepts and putting more focus directly on the clothes, but Stein’s Kiichiro Asakawa is the real deal. Ask the self-taught designer a hackneyed question about his inspiration, and he’ll hit back with a near-mathematical description of how each individual garment … Read more