Some work can only happen in the presence of two obsessives — the kind where cloth gets unrolled, seams are examined from every angle, and a single buttonhole can spark a conversation as if it were a plot twist in a novel.
It’s a dynamic Pierre Fournier and Kinji Teramoto have inhabited for decades, measuring angles, deconstructing fabrics, and tracing the line between utility, memory, and what Pierre describes as a subtle, almost instinctive sense of nostalgia. They study garments the way a film teacher studies a 1960s Western — pausing, rewinding, noting how light hits a fold or how a pocket curve settles after decades of wear. For them, the goal isn’t to recreate the past, but to preserve its underlying logic. To us, that felt like home.
From that shared instinct, we translated Pierre and Kinji’s obsessive approach into a curated selection of Anatomica’s heaviest hitters — bringing Japan-made tailored shirts, a signature selvedge jean, and historically rooted outerwear to the U.S. for the first time as the country’s only retailer to carry this collection.
Their Oxford Cloth Button Down appears straightforward at first, but its tuned collar shape and densely woven cotton reveal the precision of Pierre’s own wardrobe. Cut from proprietary Japanese selvedge, The 618 Jean is a nod to early American denim, while the Mock Neck Sweater and V-neck carry the kind of structured knit you’d expect from pieces folded in a 1940s locker trunk. The Beach Cloth Jacket, revived from nearly lost American Beach Cloth, holds the short, boxy stance of a jacket steeped in its fabric’s history. At the pinnacle, the Single Raglan Coat — with its single-piece sleeve and A-line volume — crowns the collection, where functional movement meets subtle poetry in every line.
If there’s a thesis here — it’s that true originality is found in what doesn’t change. Timeless clothing is at its best when purposeful, unpretentious, and exacting. This collaboration revisits that truth with clear eyes — not as an attempt to look backward, but as a way to keep what matters from disappearing.
