The Japanese Designers Changing Men’s Wear (opens in new tab)

You want to know where men’s fashion is heading? Follow the geeks. These are the obsessives, fixated on how their pants fit, who were early to selvage denim and soft-shouldered Italian tailoring. And where has the attention of this cohort landed now? On a vanguard of newish-to-the-West labels from Japan like A.Presse, Comoli, Auralee and T.T. Basic though these clothes appear, their hook is that they’re opulent to the touch, elevated in their fabrication. The sudden popularity of these labels...