Raf Simons

Tokyo's Aoyama district already boasts two high-profile recent additions—a paint-splattered Raf Simons store and a Phillip Lim outpost—and now it has a third: Dries Van Noten's newly opened flagship. The store features two dedicated floors of menswear, ...

For his first set of eyewear for Jil Sander, Raf Simons bypassed the brilliant colors of his Spring collection to focus on another of the house's great fascinations: texture. To wit, the faux-wood grain on a pair of tortoiseshell specs (above), ...

 - other houses produced some equally impressive renditions, including Burberry (Fair Isle cummerbunds, center) and Jil Sander (Raf Simons' subtly woven ...

 - See, for example, the militarily precise topcoats at Prada, or Raf Simons' for Jil Sander, restraining rounded shoulders and hips with cinched waists, ...