Fumito Ganryu

Japanese fashion designer, a Bunka Fashion College graduate who worked as a patternmaker under Junya Watanabe at Comme des Garçons. Rei Kawakubo backed him to launch GANRYU in 2007, debuting for Spring/Summer 2008; the line ran until Spring/Summer 2017. He then left the company and launched his own independent label, FUMITO GANRYU, debuting at Pitti Uomo in 2018.