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Born in Seoul to Japanese and Korean parents and raised in France, Raphael Young grew up surrounded by artistry. His uncle led the Yves Saint Laurent couture studio for thirty years, and Young attended his first haute couture show at fourteen. Before fashion, he briefly pursued science and engineering, and even served as a pilot officer in the French Navy, a detour that deepened his fascination with mechanics, precision and structure.

After studying art and fashion in Paris, he began his career at YSL and within the Louis Vuitton group. His references are wide ranging, from music and sociology to subcultures and contemporary art, all feeding a design language where functionality meets a distinctly modernist sensibility. As he often says, he is more fascinated by who wears the clothes than the clothes alone.

Young opened his Milan studio in 2013. Since then, he has worked across fashion, industrial design and automotive projects, serving as Design Director at Fendi, Calvin Klein, Paco Rabanne, Off-White and Jil Sander, while also designing furniture, yachts and even an Aston Martin.
 X In 2023, he launched PUBLIC SERV-CE, a brand built on the tension between casual wear and meticulous atelier technique. Trap music and street culture guide its energy, while proportion, construction and material purity define its structure. Young describes his approach as a constant zig and zag, turning something basic into something elegant through craft. Art, design and music form the through line in everything.

PUBLIC SERV-CE is built for people rather than museums. Its community naturally includes artists and performers whose presence brings Young’s work fully to life X PUBLIC SERV-CE presents its Spring Summer 2026 collection, titled STREET TAILORISM, a study in how precision tailoring can move with the rhythm of the street. Raphael Young builds a vocabulary of multi-layering, deconstructed elegance and aerial silhouettes shaped by a hip hop attitude yet crafted with fine Italian and Japanese fabrics.

Crisp cotton poplins, refined twills, airy wools from Piemonte and meticulously milled Japanese denim express the brand’s idea of tailorism. Material clarity and construction guide the form. Young explains that he likes to turn basics into unique wearables by redefining fit, volume and texture through studio technique.

The palette draws from the atmosphere of the city, with raw white, chalk, off white, mist blue, moon grey, slate and ink. Key pieces include oversized poplin shirts, pleated suiting with wide trousers, dress kilts, sharply shouldered sahariana jackets, sculpted blazers, shirred sleeve poplins, noragi inspired wrap tunics and a full range of Japanese denim.

PUBLIC SERV-CE continues to transform street pieces into powerful essentials, where the rigor of construction meets the ease of the street. X 01 X 02 X 03 X 04 X 05 X 06 X 07 X 08 X 09 X 10 X 11 X 12 X 13 X 14 X 15 X 16 X 17 X 18 X 19 X 20 X 21 X 22 X 23 X 24 X 25 X 26 X 27 X 28 X 29 X 30 X 31 X 32 X BIO RELEASE COLLECTION