TAAKK returns for Autumn-Winter 2026 with a collection pulsing with raw energy and unrestrained instinct. Impulse, Springing Up is an exploration of transformation – materials, forms, and gestures evolve through purpose. Energy twists through material, challenging our inner boundaries, spilling over textures, shifting, and dissolving. Cotton decides it wants a career change and slowly moonlights as wool, while wool sneaks into nylon territory—a quiet metamorphosis that feels alive.
The spirit of the Jomon period courses through FW26. This ten-millennium epoch of hunting, gathering, and living in harmony with nature resonates in every texture. Life and death, human and natural forces, chance and fate—these tensions shape bold forms flowing with vitality. They reject the delicate minimalism often associated with Japanese aesthetics, replacing it with an unfiltered, animalistic energy that is eager and untamed. Within TAAKK’s refined exteriors lies a fire, a subtle dissonance disrupting consensus – giving rise to strength.
Fur arrived early, on a stunt agenda. Constructed from leftover fragments, the pieces carried visible seams and mismatched textures, refusing the illusion of unity. It felt less like provocation and more like honesty, which, nowadays, feels downright revolutionary. On the runway, leather, traditionally seen as robust and commanding, here reveals a surprising delicacy. The essence of the material itself, Wagyu leather, operates as a three-dimensional undercover agent on a mission to bring softness back into our lives. All eyes on the jewelry adorning sacred minerals. For everyone on their daily retro-Mercury retrograde, these pieces felt like a casual chat from the universe itself. Crystals left rough, irregular, and unapologetic like Britney Spears. These crystallizations of time carry primordial memory, their energy transferred directly into wearable forms.
Every element of the collection is a negotiation between the inherent qualities of materials and the impulses they inspire. Fabrics, leather, embroidery, jewelry, and fur are not merely shaped—they are awakened. Creative director Takuya Morikawa guides them, responding to texture, resistance, and momentum, allowing garments to emerge as entities greater than the sum of their parts. FW26 is not a reproduction of the past nor an homage to tradition; it is a reanimation of dormant sensibilities, a challenge to the everyday, and an invitation to confront the fire that simmers beneath calm surfaces.
