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Matsuda Aviator-style sunglasses
IMAGE SOURCES: MR PORTER
Mitsuhiro Matsuda, who died in 2008 at the age of 74, founded his fashion house in Tokyo in 1967. He was a pioneering, cutting-edge designer who became one of the Tokyo Six, alongside fellow trailblazers Junko Koshino, Yukiko Hanai, Isao Kaneko, Takeo Kikuchi and Kansai Yamamoto, founding Tokyo’s first official fashion week in 1974. He gained notoriety for melding his love of architecture with fashion, while his progressive, cutting-edge designs also saw him blur the boundaries between art and fashion. Photographers such as Bruce Weber and New York artist Nan Goldin worked with Matsuda as his designs sat well with the creative aesthetic of the Big Apple in the 1980s and ’90s.