Want the Junya Watanabe look for less? These 11 brands match closely on style, silhouette and category while sitting at a lower price tier — ranked by overall similarity.
Tokyo avant-garde house founded in 1972, known for black oversized tailoring and asymmetric draping, plus the long-running Y-3 line with Adidas.
Why it's similar. Both brands encompass an avant-garde approach with a focus on deconstructed designs.
Tokyo label by Chitose Abe that hybridizes contrasting fabrics and garment archetypes into spliced tailoring, knitwear and outerwear.
Why it's similar. Both offer innovative avant-garde designs that blend different materials and textures.
Kering-owned London luxury house, now branded McQueen, pairing dark-romantic tailoring and skull motifs under creative director Seán McGirr.
Antwerp-founded avant-garde house, owned by Claudio Antonioli and designed by Stefano Gallici, known for black romantic-gothic tailoring and drape.
Paris-founded label led by Guram Gvasalia, turning workwear, merch and uniform codes into oversized, logo-heavy runway collections.
London label by Natalia Alaverdian making sculptural, deconstructed womenswear, shown on the Paris Fashion Week calendar.
Antwerp house known for clashing prints, embroidery and relaxed tailoring, now designed by Julian Klausner under majority owner Puig.
Japanese house founded in 1970, known for engineered pleating, A-POC construction and Bao Bao bags across its Pleats Please and Homme Plissé lines.
Rei Kawakubo's Tokyo label, founded 1969, known for avant-garde pattern-cutting, a family of sub-labels and the heart-logo Play diffusion line.
Tokyo military- and workwear-rooted label founded in 1996 by Tetsu Nishiyama, known for jungle jackets, MILT cargo trousers and muted utilitarian staples.
Fast Retailing's Japanese mass-market label, known for minimalist LifeWear basics like Heattech, AIRism and Ultra Light Down at accessible prices.
Yohji Yamamoto, Sacai, Alexander McQueen lead our ranking. Want the Junya Watanabe look for less? These 11 brands match closely on style, silhouette and category while sitting at a lower price tier — ranked by overall similarity.