Hiroshi Fujiwara's V.A. Opens in a Tadao Ando Building in Osaka on December 16

Hiroshi Fujiwara is taking V.A. to Osaka. JUN Co., Ltd., which runs the concept store, announced on November 11 that V.A. OSAKA opens on Wednesday, December 16, at 1-5-24 Shinsaibashi in Osaka's Chuo ward. The site is a building designed by Tadao Ando and completed in August 1980, which JUN describes by its circular form and grey walls. JUN says it has been proposing ideas from this site for 46 years, and that it is now being reborn as V.A. OSAKA.

The store is two things in one building. JUN calls it a complex store: a retail floor for apparel and goods, with a music cafe and bar attached. Fujiwara directs the whole store, as he does at V.A. in Omotesando, per JUN. The music cafe and bar are developed and supervised by Shinichi Osawa and Nobuhiro Toba, who produce Ginza Music Bar. Nobuo Araki of The Archetype designed the retail floor, and architect and space designer Yoshiyuki Morii's cafe co. is responsible for the food floor.

What JUN hasn't said

The release names no brands, collaborations, prices, opening hours or menu. Its pitch, in our translation, is a place where fashion, culture, music and food meet, which tells you the format and not the stock. JUN also points readers to V.A.'s online store and is recruiting staff for the Osaka shop.

How V.A. runs in Tokyo

V.A.'s own Instagram shows what the format does at home. On November 5 it put a Dickies collaboration online, custom versions of the 874 work pant and a looser 877. On November 1 it posted a November 2 release from Soph. Tokyo's 27th anniversary, uniform experiment x Judy Blame. And it has a Midnight Market at its Tokyo shop on Friday, November 13, from 23:00 to 27:00, with a ¥500 cash entry fee, per V.A.'s posts. Retail, collaborations and events are what V.A. does in Tokyo; the music cafe and bar is what JUN's release puts first for Osaka.

Fujiwara's name is also on another story this week: his FRGMT is one of the three names on the ARTIST PROOF x FRGMT x nonnative Trooper Coat, out November 14. For Osaka, the next thing to look for is what the shop opens with in December.