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Music, art, life—always close by.
VIRGOwearworks is a Japanese fashion brand launched in 2003 by designer YU KITAJO. It offers apparel and accessories, primarily for men, and is characterized by clothing that evokes “sound,” drawing on music, art, and everyday life. Its concept is to express the designer’s own sensibilities and messages using clothing as a canvas. In 2024, it launched its second line, W+by VIRGOwearworks.

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The idea is to express what VGW’s designer has felt and the messages they want to convey, using clothing as a canvas.

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2017-2024
2017 Sub-brand
PSYCHOLOGICAL METAMORPHOSIS
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An offshoot brand focused on pop real streetwear

An offshoot brand that began as the “younger sibling” of VIRGOwearworks. While the parent

An offshoot brand that began as the “younger sibling” of VIRGOwearworks. While the parent brand expresses the designer’s experiences and messages through clothing and places sound at the root of its creative process, this brand presents a more pop, easy-to-wear take on real streetwear. It also takes a perspective unconstrained by nationality or race, and is characterized by its distinctive incorporation of the “now” of street culture and music. Whereas W+, the official second line launched in 2024, presents the connection between music and fashion more directly, this line is positioned as a separate brand focused on casual street expression.

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W+by VIRGOwearworks
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An official second line that brings music and fashion together in an accessible way

This is the official second line launched in 2024, the year VIRGOwearworks marked its 20th

This is the official second line launched in 2024, the year VIRGOwearworks marked its 20th anniversary. It develops the parent brand’s worldview—which began as a uniform for its friends—as a street brand that can be enjoyed more accessibly, and expresses the connection between music and fashion more directly under the motto “Fashion & Music.” While the parent brand places sound at its roots and expresses the designer’s message through clothing, W+ serves as an entry point for bringing that musical background into everyday life. It has a different role from PSYCHOLOGICAL METAMORPHOSIS, which foregrounds a pop, approachable form of real streetwear.

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