This past weekend, SOPH. founder Hirofumi Kiyonaga officially cut the proverbial ribbon to his first location outside of Japan on a busy Hong Kong street. For the past ten years, he has helmed the SOPH. network of brands that have included his flagship SOPHNET., the football-minded F.C.R.B. together with Nike and uniform experiment, a brand created with friend Hiroshi Fujiwara. An immediate demeanor of subtly, the soft-spoken Kiyonaga and Fujiwara sat down for a conversation regarding both Kiyonaga’s work with his three brands as well as his efforts on uniform experiment label with Fujiwara. For the brand who’s named is derived from the word sophistication, this interview sheds the proper light on the man behind some a seminal series of brands.
Interview: Eugene Kan
Photography: Cavan Mok
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