From linen, silk, simple and elegant cuts, Pas de calais is a clothing brand combining tradition and modernity. And if its name sounds undeniably French, it is nothing: the brand as the designer are Japanese.

Trained at the Bunka Fashion Institute in Tokyo, Yukari Suda then worked for a small Japanese group, Galerie de Pop, which owns two other brands - Pou Dou Dou and Sage de Cret - before launching with the help of the latter, his claw with a strangely French name for a Japanese brand.