Hiroshi Fujiwara: Be a Disturber, Not a Designer

MILAN, Italy — Before there was the internet, there was Hiroshi Fujiwara.

In the 1980s, Fujiwara travelled from Japan to London and New York, soaking up the subcultures of punk, hip-hip and skateboarding, and transporting them back to Tokyo. In the process, he reinvented himself as a cultural DJ and godfather of Harajuku, the Japanese capital’s ground-zero for streetwear, which he inflected with high fashion sensibilities, transforming…