Junya Watanabe is a Japanese fashion designer who began his career as a patternmaker at Comme Des Garçons.

The École Guerre-Lavigne, which he had chosen as being the best school for pattern-making, awarded him a diploma with distinction.

The New York-based Patternmaker Talks Craftsmanship at his Garment District Studio

All our patterns are styled in our design office in Marseilles by our team of designers andpattern-cutters.

Thus the vamp patternmaker can customise a flowered tip on the vamp: drawings or initials, the possibilities are infinite.

I do not have training as a patternmaker or cutter but I'm not afraid to confront all kinds of subjects.

Last-maker, pattern-maker, cutter, stitcher: the craftsmen in the bespoke workshops will have completed no less than 250 technical manoeuvres to create the perfect shoe for the client.

Last-maker, pattern-maker, cutter, stitcher: the craftsmen in the bespoke workshops will have completed no less than 250 technical manoeuvres to create the perfect shoe for the client.

Trained at the seam by Juliette Cambursano, ex-premiere workshop at Cristobal Balenciaga, he will be a model maker, patternmaker, cutter, first qualified hand, prototypist and foreman.

At first, for a period of about six months, he worked with Alain Renaud, a very experienced skate patternmaker, who taught him the techniques of patternmaking.