JUNKO SHIMADA

Japanese designer JUNKO SHIMADA launched her eponymous brand in Paris in 1981. She fell in love with Paris in the 1960s and hasn’t left the City of Lights since. Nicknamed the “most Parisian of Japanese women,” Junko Shimada was first responsible for men’s and children’s ready-to-wear at Cacharel before launching her label. She has a very extravagant style and doesn’t hesitate to create transparent shirts, oversized sweaters, or pumps with inverted heels.

Junko Shimada opened her first boutique on rue Etienne Marcel in Paris in 1984. A second Parisian boutique opened on rue Saint Florentin in Paris in 2001, where you can find the clothes from the designer’s second, trendier line, Junk by Junko Shimada.