visim does a whole range of clothes and backpacks, but the shoes are probably their most well-known item.
45rpm is a cool japanese label, nearly everything is hand-made out of the nicest materials possible, boiled denim, etc.
other labels of note: comme des garcons (who did a relatively--for them--cheap collection for h&m this past season), undercover, lanvin (alber elbaz is such a character), veronique branquinho, issey miyake (who has made 'cut-out' dresses from single pieces of cloth), yohji yamamoto.
it's a pity that cosmic wonder doesn't make better clothes. all the ephemera they produce (the books, art installations, cool shows with people serving artisinal lemonade while someone plays tuned percussion in the corner, designs by yoshimi from the boredoms) is so much more interesting than the actual pieces.
taschen put out an excellent book called 'embroidered textiles, a guide to traditional patterns' that has some amazing photos, and yann & hippolyte romain's 'tibet style' does a good job at detailing all the conjugations of ancient and modern that occur in the region.