Fashion house TAAKK presented its Autumn Winter 2026 Impulse, Springing Up Collection on January 25th during Paris Fashion Week. The collection was inspired by the ancient Jomon culture. The Jomon period extended across nearly ten millennia, beginning around ten thousand years ago, during an era defined by hunting, gathering, and early cultivation. Communities lived alongside forests, oceans, and rivers, sustaining life through coexistence with natural forces rather than dominance over them.
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Japan’s status as an island nation shaped this way of life. Varied terrain and four distinct seasons demanded constant adaptation. The Jomon people thrived within cycles of life and death, humanity and nature, fate and chance. Their creations carry intense energy, born from daily attempts to exist within these shifting conditions. That energy remains vivid, charged by contact with forces that resist reduction to symbol or theme.
The collection responds to the bold forms associated with Jomon expression. Shapes rise and fall with a sense of life, marked by rawness and immediacy. These forms counter the restrained minimalism often linked to Japanese beauty. Beneath familiar narratives of refinement lies another face of Japan, one shaped by urgency, force, and friction.
That tension also lives within the designer Takuya Morikawa. An explosive impulse pushes against balance, driven by instinct and animal force. The collection draws from this internal state, described by the designer as intense, dynamic, and avant-garde. This sensation extends beyond a specific era or act, linking past and present through shared human drive.
This internal force defines the core of TAAKK. Autumn Winter 2026 emerges as the culmination of that drive, shaped through confrontation between surface and depth. A refined exterior contains heat beneath it. The garments invite closer attention, where minimal frameworks reveal layered and intertwined expression. Everyday wear carries faint dissonance, and that friction produces strength.
The collection treats form as something shaped through process and interaction. The artisan’s hands follow the flow of fabric through needlework guided by touch and response. Inscriptions and marks allow both maker and material to transform together, producing garments that exceed their initial components.
TAAKK Autumn Winter 2026 avoids revival or reverence for the past. The collection seeks to awaken a dormant sensibility and provoke the present. It draws energy from ancient coexistence and channels it into clothing that carries unrest, force, and vitality into today.
