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Podcast: menSwear by a Woman
Episode: EP229: The Collector’s Eye ft Shigeru Kaneko & Mizuki Maeda, Vintage Down Jackets & BEAMS Japan
Description: In this episode, I sit down with Shigeru Kaneko, Chief Buyer at BEAMS Japan, and Mizuki Maeda, who works in Promotion and Advertising and translates our conversation. Shigeru shares his journey from discovering BEAMS to becoming Chief Buyer, and how his passion for vintage outdoor down jackets led him to become a collector and the author of the Outdoor Expedition Book a celebration of rare and iconic down jackets. We also explore the origins of the Expedition Club Exhibition, a BEAMS project that brings together adventure, nostalgia, and design. Shigeru and Mizuki reveal how the exhibition was conceived, the...