Roku 6 Nakameguro
“Second floor behind a door marked only "6": where designers come to buy reference pieces.”
A second-floor room in Aobadai with a slim street door that just says 6. Moose, who worked in a New York vintage store before opening here, buys the odd and the old: shooting jackets, early military life vests, fisherman's gloves, early Issey Miyake, Margiela. Luxury-house design teams shop it for sample references, which tells you the level.
It is a dig, not a display, and it mixes used designer with quirky one-offs, leather goods and small jewellery. Ask Moose for jeans: he sizes you in a minute and speaks good English. Open daily 1 to 9 pm, no online store.
Brand collections
- 1980s
Early archive pieces, the pleated and sculpted work from before the label became a diffusion empire.
- 1990s
Early Margiela from the late 90s into the 2000s men's lines, the era the owner collects himself.
