Advent Calendar Day 25: Junya Watanabe x The North Face Backpack Jacket

Rei Kawakubo protégé Junya Watanabe has collaborated with The North Face dozens of times over the past decade. For Spring/Summer 2018, however, the Japanese wunderkind outdid himself; Watanabe fused one of the outdoor brand's backpacks to a mountain parka, creating a multifunctional jacket as eye-catching as it was useful. Fall/Winter 2018 saw the designer refining this covetable outerwear into a striking black, grey and silver iteration, both touching on the contemporary metallics trend and t...