FACTOTUM

 

FACTOTUM is Japanese street fashion brand to propose the refined “Real clothes” based on military-style, work wear and tailored by the design that mixes the conception of avant-garde. FACTOTUM is high favor among the youth.

 

Brand name

FACTOTUM

 

Designer

Koji UDO (born November 6, 1971 in Kumamoto JAPAN)

UDO learned the fashion in the Tokyo mode Gakuen that is famous fashion special school, joined Beams Ltd. after it graduates, and becomes a salesman. Afterwards, he left Beams, and went to study to London until 1998.

After returning, he established apparel brand “Lounge Lizard” with the Manabu Yaegashi and Tatsuya Togo on October 10, 1998.

In 2004, Udo becomes independent of Lounge Lizard, and establishes FACTOTUM. Flagship shop is opened in Daikanyama, Tokyo on February 11, 2006.

 

About Brand

The origin of the brand name of “FACTOTUM” is a mind of “Live without permission” in Latin.

FACTOTUM based on military-style, work wear and tailored by the design that mixes the conception of avant-garde and featured wear that unites the mode with casual.

There are a lot of clothes that receive the inspiration from the artist painter and the writer, etc, and “Real clothes” of Tokyo is built into such a basic concepts.

Clothes of FUCTOTUM are seemingly orthodox in P court, the duffle coat, the flannel checkered shirt and drainpipe jeans, but the color with pastel, and it create peculiar outlook on the world.

 

Comment

FACTOTUM is not flaming and discerning design, but will become one of the brands that lead Tokyo Collection in the future.

 

Rough price range is from US600 dollars to US700 dollars for Jacket, from US150 dollars to US250 dollars for pants, and from US70 dollars to US100 dollars for T-shirt.

There are a lot of tight silhouettes.

 

Past theme of collection

2007-2008 A/W “Kafka”

The theme of the debut collection is “Franz Kafka” who is one of the major fiction Jewish writers of the 20th century.

http://www.mensnonno.org/editorsblog/archive/2007/03/post_17.php

 

2008 S/S “The Complete world”

http://www.mensnonno.org/editorsblog/archive/2007/09/post_41.php

 

2008-2009 A/W “Von”

It was a rock band that represented Iceland, and Von that was the debut album that “Sigur Ros” had put on the market in 1997 was made a theme.

http://www.mensnonno.org/editorsblog/archive/2008/04/factotum.php

 

2009 S/S “Believe”

It was inspired from movie “Little Runner” that believes the miracle by a certain boy, and depicted the striving appearance.

 

Shop Information

FACTOTUM

11-3 Uguisudanicho Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN

 

Official Web site

http://www.factotum.jp/