Ryo Takashima
Japanese fashion creator and CLESSTE founder sharing personal style, clothing details and the craft behind everyday wardrobes, alongside directing and buying for select shop +81.
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Overview
- From
- Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan
- Born
- 1992
- Work
- Fashion creator, designer, director and buyer
- Before fashion
- Architecture, then fashion retail
- Shop
- +81, launched in 2020
- Brand
- CLESSTE, launched in 2022
Mini bio
How it started.
Ryo grew up in Numazu, Shizuoka, and worked in architecture before moving into fashion retail. In a brand-team interview, they recalled getting into clothes while shopping with stylish friends at their architecture-focused high school.
Finding an audience.
Outfit posts helped turn retail experience into a public creative career. Ryo says YouTube offered room to explain garment details and information that Instagram and WEAR could not convey, and to give viewers a reason to enjoy clothes.
From outfits to objects.
Their namesake label began in 2018. They launched select shop +81 in 2020 and CLESSTE in 2022. CLESSTE describes its purpose as bringing Japanese craftsmanship and aesthetics closer to everyday life, working with makers on products intended to be kept and worn.
Beyond the screen.
The work has also included modelling at Paris Fashion Week in January 2023, a sunglasses collaboration with Zoff in 2024, and serving on the judging panel for Fashion Prize of Tokyo 2025.
Creditschronological, newest first
Fashion and retail
- 2026CLESSTE × +phenix Twill City 1st Type JacketCLESSTE founder and designer
- 2024Zoff | Ryo TakashimaSunglasses collaborator
- 2022CLESSTEFounder and designer
- 2020+81Director and buyer
- 2018RYO TAKASHIMANamesake clothing label
Industry
- 2025Fashion Prize of TokyoJudge
Quotes
The power to express one's thoughts and images in the real worldRyo Takashima, Friends of vowels
Their answer to “What is creativity to you?” Source: https://vowels.jp/en/blogs/news/friends-of-vowels-ryo-takashima
Trivia
- Collects sneakers, according to the Friends of vowels interview.
- Named orange as a favourite colour and mizutaki chicken hotpot as a comfort food in the same interview.
- Told their brand team they enjoy taking photographs, and sometimes prefer being behind the camera.
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