Japanese designer Chitose Abe founded sacai in 1999, after spending years under the guidance of Rei Kawakubo and Junya Watanabe. Abe has become the face of the modern avant-garde Japanism, an hybrid style that breaks down the thin line between casual and formal-wear, creating a constructive design approach genderless and without strict lines. Most famous are the brand’s “spliced” garments that literally fuse together not just two garment styles such as the bomber jacket and blazer, but two entire cultural patrimonies to produce surprisingly wearable pieces of avant garde design.