WAngelic Pretty is a Japanese fashion company specialized in lolita fashion, founded in 1979 under the name Pretty - later changed to its current name in 2001. Various items, primarily of the sweet lolita sub-style, such as accessories, coats, dresses, jumper skirts, blouses, cutsews, skirts, headdresses, petticoats and bloomers, shoes, socks, bags, etc. are up for sale.
WAsics is a Japanese multinational corporation which produces sports equipment designed for a wide range of sports. The name is an acronym for the Latin phrase anima sana in corpore sano, which translates as "Sound mind in a sound body". In recent years their running shoes have often been ranked among the top performance footwear in the market.
WA Bathing Ape is a Japanese fashion brand founded by Nigo in Ura-Harajuku in 1993. The brand specializes in men's, women's and children's lifestyle and street wear, running 19 stores in Japan, including Bape Stores, Bape Pirate Stores, Bape Kids Stores, Bapexclusive Aoyama, and Bapexclusive Kyoto. The Kyoto store also includes Bape Gallery, a space used for various events and art shows sponsored by Bape. There are also stores located in Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Qingdao, Shenyang, Seoul, Singapore, New York City, Kuala Lumpur, London, Paris, Miami and Los Angeles.
WBillionaire Boys Club, is a streetwear label founded by Pharrell Williams and NIGO in 2003. Its sublabels include ICECREAM, Bee Line, and Billionaire Girls Club.
WComme des Garçons is a Japanese fashion label founded and headed by Rei Kawakubo in Paris. The label began in 1969 and the company was founded in 1973. Its French flagship store is in Paris. It also establishes country-wide and world-wide store chain for various lines of products, including Dover Street Market, in major cities such as London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, and New York City. Other than fashion, it expands its business to jewelry and perfume.
WDescente Ltd. is a Japanese sports clothing and accessories company, first formed in 1935, when Takeo Ishimoto started the company in Osaka as Ishimoto Shoten. The company logo depicts 3 basic skiing techniques - traverse, schuss and side-slip. Descente owns a portfolio of 16 in-house, purchased and licensed brands, among them Descente, Shiseist, Arena, Marmot and Srixon.
WEdwin or often capitalized, EDWIN, is a Japanese clothing brand founded in 1947 as 'Tsunemi Yonehachi shop'. Edwin Co. Ltd., (株式会社エドウイン) mainly focuses on jeans manufacture.
WEvisu or Evisu Genes is a Japanese designer clothing company that specializes in producing denim wear through traditional, labor-intensive methods. The brand was founded in 1991 in Osaka, Japan, by Hidehiko Yamane.
WG.U. is a Japanese discount casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer, with 422 stores across the country. It is fully owned by the company Fast Retailing, which is better known as the owner of the retail chain Uniqlo. The name is a pun of the word jiyū , meaning free from high cost clothing. Its signature product is a pair of jeans, which costs 990 yen.
WKenzo is a French luxury fashion house founded in 1970 by Japanese designer Kenzo Takada and owned by parent company LVMH.
WIssey Miyake is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L'eau d'Issey, which has become his most well-known product.
WMizuno Corporation is a Japanese sports equipment and sportswear company, founded in Osaka in 1906 by Rihachi Mizuno. Today, Mizuno is a global corporation which makes a wide variety of sports equipment and sportswear, for golf, tennis, baseball, volleyball, football, running, rugby, skiing, swimming, cycling, judo, table tennis, badminton, boxing and athletics.
WRyohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. , or Muji is a Japanese retail company which sells a wide variety of household and consumer goods. Muji's design philosophy is minimalist, and it places an emphasis on recycling, reducing production and packaging waste, and a no-logo or "no-brand" policy. The name Muji is derived from the first part of Mujirushi Ryōhin, translated as No-Brand Quality Goods on Muji's European website.
WPeach John Co., Ltd. is a Japanese mail-order retailer of lingerie and women's apparel targeted at women in their teens and 20s.
WTheory is a New York-based men's and women's contemporary fashion label which sells clothes and accessories. The brand currently has 221 retail locations and global sales approaching $1 billion in 2014. The company's headquarters and flagship boutique are located in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.
WUniqlo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.
WUnited Arrows is a Japanese clothing brand founded in 1989 by Yasuto Kamoshita, Hirofumi Kurino and Osamu Shigematsu. Its sub-brand Camoshita United Arrows was established in 2007. The brand has collaborated with New Balance, The North Face, Dr. Martens, adidas, HUF, and others.
WWacoal is a manufacturer of women's lingerie and underwear, founded in 1949 in Japan by Koichi Tsukamoto. The company has divisions in North America and Europe, and manufactures the brands Wacoal, b.tempt'd, Elomi, Eveden, Fantasie, Freya, Lively, and Goddess.
WYohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics.