White Mountaineering's Yosuke Aizawa on Family, Functionality, and Collaboration

When Yosuke Aizawa founded White Mountaineering in 2006, it was a shining example of how to turn a passion into a career. Aged just 22 at the time, Aizawa -- who is an alumnus of Tokyo's Tama Art University and a former protégée of Junya Watanabe -- merged his admiration for the outdoors with a love for design and fashion, to create what is now regarded as one of the most innovative outerwear labels on the market.Alongside its seasonal releases, the Tokyo-based label has become renowned for it...