`this nonsensical world we call home `
Japanese menswear brand TAAKK is pleased to present its latest collection for the Autumn Winter 2022 season. Since TAAKK’s founding, Morikawa has continued to reshape the possibilities of menswear design with a multidisciplinary approach – incorporating extensive material research and imaginative fabric treatments into his creations and collaborating with expert technicians to bring these ideas to existence.
The theme for AW22 collection is “this nonsensical world we call home,” Takuya Morikawa focused on exploring himself again, eliminating his own filters. Thinking beyond his own imagination, questioning himself “what kind of clothes making can be recorded as a new page in the history of fashion”, reminding what he has been able to accomplish so far, he has focused on challenging things that he has not done or even thought of before. Through that process, TAAKK’s clothing is created by technology and ideas that is unique to the brand, and it is this story itself of how the clothes are being created, is the Fashion of TAAKK. The 22AW collection has been created with such belief, and is beautifully distorted with a multifaced look.
The blurred feeling when looking into yourself, wishing strongly to overcome your own boundaries. Though abstract it may be, Morikawa visualized this emotion into graphics onto an imitation leather fabric, enabling unique expression of combined material. Technical fabric items created by Morikawa’s self-questioning, styled together with basic denims, Morikawa resembles fashion that he had dreamed of as a student.
This season, we were considering a physical show in Paris right up until the last minute, but the trip to France became unavoidably difficult. The presentation in this video is the best way to display our clothes for everyone to see.
Morikawa’s mindset of wanting to go beyond her own confines was shared by the filmmaker Nagisa Kodama, and this is another exciting and different aspect of the TAAKK collection we are proud to present to you.
About TAAKK
TAAKK was established in 2013 in Tokyo, Japan by award-winning designer, Takuya Morikawa. Following an eight-year tenure at ISSEY MIYAKE, Morikawa’s unique point of view to design and fabric innovation has earned the brand numerous accolades including: Best New Designer by the Tokyo Fashion Awards in 2014 and 2017, Fashion Prize of Tokyo in 2019, (awarded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japan Apparel Fashion Industry Council (JAFI) and LVMH Prize Nominee and Semi-Finalist, 2021.
Since TAAKK’s inception, Morikawa has continued to reshape traditional ideas in menswear and push boundaries with his multidisciplinary approach to design.
all images courtesy of Taakk
Creative Director: Takuya Morikawa Directed by Nagisa Kodama Creative Producer : Takashiro Saito (KuRoKo inc.) Photography : Ko Tsuchiya Director of Photography: Noriaki Matsumoto Takeyuki Otani DIT Shoji Sasaki Gaffer Ritsu Fujie Electric Ryotaro Taki Light Board Operator Keisuke Hirama Key Grip Ryouga Tokiwa Stylist: Shohei Kashima (W Inc.) Hair & Make-Up: Jun Nakamura (SHISEIDO) Production : Keisuke Kikuchi (KuRoKo inc.) Editor: Nagisa Kodama Colorist: Anne Luc Music Composition: Taisuke Kimura MODEL: MOHAMEDO, MATEJ, MAMADO,ENSANG,ERIC,KEIJU Camera Equipment provided by PROGRESSIVE inc. Lighting Equipment provided by ARC SYSTEM inc. International Press: Karla Otto Paris