Some men wear their hearts on their sleeves; Mr Atsuhiko Mori puts playlists on his. The brains behind Japanese streetwear label, Wacko Maria, is a music obsessive. His brand, co-founded with fellow former J-League footballer Mr Keiji Ishizuka, actually started out as a Tokyo-based record store.

The first Wacko Maria collection emerged in 2005, though music has remained at the heart of the project since. The Tokyo flagship, for instance, remains home to a vast collection of vinyl.

Music is not the only influence on Wacko Maria’s streetwear (collaborators have included filmmakers Mr Jim Jarmusch and Mr Larry Clark and collage artist Weirdo Dave), but rock heroes are on heavy rotation in a new capsule collection, part of MR PORTER’s The Japan Edit.

Some of the musical taste here is not actually Wacko Maria’s own. The capsule, part of our series celebrating our roster of Japanese designers, has been created in partnership with Fragment founder and streetwear icon Mr Hiroshi Fujiwara, whose record collection also proved inspirational.

“Hiroshi Fujiwara and I have a shared love for music, which is why I wanted to create a collection tied to music,” Mr Mori explains. “When we first started collaborating on the collection, Fujiwara told me a story about buying a vinyl record of The Specials, which came with an amazing zebra-print Hawaiian shirt. This shirt then became a part of his wardrobe – I even did a Google search and found that Fujiwara had actually worn the shirt for a magazine.”

Mr Mori loved the story so much, he decided to incorporate it into the capsule, in a zebra-print camp-collar shirt, dotted with Wacko Maria’s “Guilty Parties” slogan.

Elsewhere, the musical references keep coming. The vinyl records-print shirt is a big hit, while the herringbone suit jacket has the ultimate in rock ‘n’ roll – a leopard-print lining. All of it sounds good to us. Scroll down for an edit of our favourites below.