C.P. Company x Junya Watanabe MAN

C.P. Company introduces the collaboration with Japanese brand Junya Watanabe MAN, unveiling two fishtail parkas with reflective print on the back and loose fit.

The two jackets, made from 3-layer laminated cotton denim and 3-layer nylon canvas respectively, are equipped with Explorer hoods, one of the signature traits of C.P. Company garments.

While retaining the classic functional and technical features of the fishtail parkas, such as the concealed zip and press studs, drawstring waist and adjustable cuffs with buttons, the collaboration represents the meeting point between the unstructured modernism of Japanese designer with the technical innovation of C.P. Company.

An authentic narrative reinterpreted through an innovative perspective.

C.P. Company
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In 1971 Massimo Osti, a young graphic designer from Bologna who would go on to be recognized as the “godfather of urban sportswear,” founded the brand Chester Perry, famous for its screen-printed t-shirts. In 1978 he changed the name in C.P. Company. This drier, more mature name inaugurated one of the most explosive and influential bursts of creativity in the history of sportswear.

Over the last decades the brand has continued to pioneer a connoisseurial hybrid style that combines the functionality of vintage military, work and sportswear with intense fabric research and innovation, heightened by using garment dyeing, a technique which C.P. Company was the first brand in the world to pioneer in the mid- 1970s. This hybridization of functional menswear and Italian fabric innovation is the origin of C.P. Company and still today remains the basis of every piece of clothing to carry the C.P. Company label.

Junya Watanabe MAN
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Junya Watanabe is a Japanese fashion designer, a protégé of Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo. Watanabe is often considered a “techno couture” designer, creating unusually structured clothes out of modern, technical materials. Like his mentor Rei Kawakubo, Watanabe is renowned for designing innovative and distinctive clothing.

All images courtesy of C.P. Company.