Fashion: Interview / Tokyo
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The Jun Group is behind some of Japan’s most inspiring labels. We meet the president of the company selling more than just clothes.
Japanese fashion company Jun Group started in 1958 with a single design: a line of red tartan swimming trunks that famously sold out in a day. Founder Tadashi Sasaki went on to develop full menswear collections under his first label Junmen, adding womenswear to the mix in 1968 with the launch of the Ropé label (named after Saint-Tropez). Since then, the Jun Group has been one of Japan’s biggest fashion pioneers, launching more in-house labels under the Ropé umbrella, opening some of the best-known concept shops in the country, including Maison…
