garconshinois
2-28-2 kamimeguro meguro-ku tokyo japan
tel : 03-3716-1918

DESIGNER PROFILE

shin (Real name not released.)

1967	Born in Fukuoka. Prefecture shin has worked in magazines and television, primarily in the field of advertisement, as a hair and makeup artist.
1997	Held the “Shin hair and makeup work” exhibition at Daikanyama.
2002	Expanded his field of work to Japan and abroad (Asia as a whole, with a focus on Shanghai).
2003	Participated as a director in the Seoul Collection.
2005	Established the “garconshinois” creative office.
2006	Started the "garconshinis" brand.
2007	Debuted his new brand for the 2008 Spring & Summer Tokyo Collection.

The opportunity to work in total production projects involving everything from arranging the fashions for the talent to handling the hair and makeup has created this deep interest in clothing. Utilizing a sensitivity and feeling for balance that have been fostered through many years of working in hair and makeup, shin set out to make the kind of clothes he would like to wear.

Taking it upon himself to learn how to make clothes, shin put his inherent passion into his dedication to making clothes. Because shin was not originally part of the apparel industry, he has freely formed ideas about clothing production that are not bound by traditional clothing conventions.

In order to look into himself to discover how strongly he loved clothing, and to understand if he really wanted to make his living as a designer, shin participated in the Tokyo Collection with the goal of making clothes.

shin then set his sights on participating in the Paris Collection as an opportunity to re-confirm his convictions.

With the vitality of a designer and the dedication to carrying out his own words, shin, at 40, has set his sights on undertaking the new challenge of the clothing world.

The garconshinis concept of “Real Clothes” is seen in the clothing that expresses the lifestyle of the designer.