BIOGRAPHY
1966 Born into a family running a home furniture retail store in Okayama, Japan 1987 Moves to Tokyo
1992 Cofounds H. Design Associates during Japan’s bubble-economy collapse 1998 Gains international
attention with a boutique for Nigo’s fashion brand, A Bathing Ape 2000 Founds Wonderwall 2003 Publishes
Wonderwall: Masamichi Katayama Projects with Frame and Birkhäuser 2006 Designs Uniqlo SoHo, the
brand’s first global flagship store that leads to others around the world, and establishes a design manual for
the next decade 2009 Designs the Wonderwall office in Sendagaya, Tokyo 2011 Appointed as professor in
Musashino Art University’s Department of Scenography, Space and Fashion Design 2018 Designs Japan
House London, a project led by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2020 Receives the Frame Lifetime
Achievement Award
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