Dear Shaded Viewers,
In the cavernous hush of Paris, NOIR Kei Ninomiya launched his SS26 collection like a silver ship into another world—a world where structure breathes and freedom gleams. The show pulsed with aquatic futurism, balancing softness with precision, innocence with innovation. It was pure and playful, a voyage toward a new light.
Silhouettes undulated like waves, impossibly engineered yet graceful as sea foam. Fabrics shimmered with life—tulle refracting into water, metallic petals suspended midair. Every garment felt alive, built not merely to be worn but to float. Ninomiya, the quiet cartographer of fashion’s farthest frontiers, continues to sculpt emotion through discipline, revealing how tenderness can be an architecture of its own.
Shinji Konishi’s hair and makeup seemed to emerge from a dream of coral and rain: slicked, luminous, otherworldly. Faces looked like modern sirens—half-divine, half-data. The environment was charged with sonic alchemy, Hakushi Hasegawa’s composition thrumming through the space like sonar. Poet Natsumi Aoyagi’s voice flickered through the soundscape, whispering human ache into the mechanical pulse—a reminder that even the future must breathe.
And when the Noir Kei Ninomiya x Jimmy Choo collaboration appeared, the show crystallized into something transcendent. The shoes—gleaming like constellations beneath fluid silhouettes—anchored the vision, dancing between gravity and grace. They grounded the ethereal voyage without breaking its spell.
By the finale, it felt less like an ending than a portal opening—an invitation to drift beyond the familiar, where joy itself becomes an instrument of design. NOIR Kei Ninomiya has once again transformed black into light, and from light, an ocean.
Hair & Make up: Shinji KONISHI @shinji_konishi
Music composed by Hakushi Hasegawa (@hsgwhks/@ah_ah_aaagh)
-Poet Natsumi Aoyagi @realdatsuo
FOOTWEAR COLLABORATION :
-noir kei ninomiya x Jimmy Choo
Later,
Diane
