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Shigeru Takizawa was born in Chuo-ku Tokyo Japan on May 1964.
He Sublime the brand “Takizawa Shigeru”.
On 1984, he enters a legendary “Men’s Fashion Special School“.
For 2 years until graduation, he succeeded with an overwhelming result and graduated first. After graduation he stayed for 5 years directing the paper pattern, the needlework and the design for men’s clothing.
The formation of the brand “Takizawa Shigeru” started through this period’s encounter and exchanges with the people like Human body Doctor of Engineering and eminent Japanese tailors.
The brand sublimed with a more specific concept through his technical training in Italy, participation in product development with “IM Product” by the Miyake design office led by Issey Miyake and product developments cooperating with several eminent collection stores.
Shigeru Takizawa has put his effort on making the clothing with the courtesy embodied through. They are not a material just for superficial trend or fashion but a material for a man to dress up to enhance himself, to show respective courtesy and moderation.
The start of his secondary brand “Ondata” in Isetan men’s pavilion and “Takizawa Shigeru” in Barneys New York are both a comprehensive compilation and a new progress.
To start another new progress, “Takizawa Shigeru” will always evolve and work to embody new “Cataci”, which means “the style”.
I think the original essence of men’s clothing is in the horse riding suit, the battle fatigues and the court clothes of Renaissance period in the middle ages.
They are functionality, elegance and nobility carried out by horse riding.
If the men’s clothing can not embody the essence, they are no more a men’s clothing.
The concept of “Takizawa Shigeru” is to proceed in expressing the essence and to bring them in life.
The tailoring skill fully embodied the function of horse riding is what should materialized in modern men’s clothing.
To fascinate, to refine men’s movement and gesture and to create men’s existence with a beautiful form.
For the man who wears them, it should be light, graceful and wearable.
They are what I always work on to make true.
