Watch the fashion show video for FALL-WINTER 2025 RUNWAY SHOW BY NIGO
Luxury fashion house KENZO showcase the FALL-WINTER 2025 collection in a fashion video.
“THE KENZO COMMUTE: a wardrobe woven on the train from Tokyo to Paris. The KENZO Fall-Winter 2025 Men’s Collection takes shape on a futuristic high-speed journey from East to West. Re-imagining concepts from the Maison’s Train Show from Fall-Winter 1998, Artistic Director Nigo lets the idea of the passage inspire a cultural cross-pollination between dress codes, textures and patterns, and paints it in a playful and preppy palette invigorated by the energy of travel. Celebrating a lifelong creative friendship, Nigo invites the American artist Futura 2000 to create imagery and iconography for the collection in a collaboration serendipitously marked by the fusion of their monikers: ‘2000’ plus ‘Ni-go’ – which also means 2-5 in Japanese – equals the year 2025. Presented in the Palais de Chaillot with the Eiffel Tower as its backdrop, the show features a live concert by the American cellist and composer Erik Friedlander, who performs a repertoire of pieces curated by Nigo.”
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Silhouettes and textures
“English tailoring sourced from the historical clothing archives of Nigo is re-interpreted through a contemporary lens. Suits – their pieces separated in styling – are imbued with the untraditional tailoring language of fluffy textures and accents of powdery pastels, infusing them with a preppy panache. Classic suit compositions assume Japanese constructions, and in new takes on the three-piece suit, jackets are spliced with kimono-cut waistcoats. Workwear likewise informed by archival archetypes enters into a number of textural code-swaps: boxy utility jackets engineered in vibrant, wintery mohair; rugged work jackets and rigid bombers softened in pastels; and salopettes deconstructed and formalised in denim suits. Knitwear created through intricate techniques and textures affirm the collection’s preppy silhouette. Japanese denim trousers appear with turn-ups, revealing the selvedge.”
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Patterns and motifs
“A series of patterns and motifs are centred around train journeys and executed through a wealth of techniques. Inspired by the speed-obscured views of landscapes from a train window, train stripes manifest in different forms. Informed by the KENZO archives, diagonal stripes and stripes that mutate into leaf shapes appear in tailoring, denim and shirting. A train-window motif picturing scenes from Paris and Japan is interpreted in prints on shirts and t-shirts, and in jacquard in knitwear also embellished with emblems of train station matrixes. The KENZO Weave, the patterns created in Japanese flooring, is shaved into shearling and expressed through jacquard in denim and tailoring. It also appears quilted over a paisley adapted from the KENZO archive in khaki and brightly-coloured manifestations. Nigo pays homage to the Japanese slot machines of his childhood known as pachinko in graphics brought to life in elaborately textured knitwear.”
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