Kolor Fall/Winter 2026 – 2027 / FW26 at Paris Men’s Fashion Week
The primary sources of inspiration are Lighthouse Keeper / Voyage / Fear / Night / Mythic Sea / Survival. The Lighthouse directed by Robert Eggers, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. A cold winter sea — violent, restless, endlessly surging. The sensation of being struck by waves, as if the body itself were forcibly torn away, stripped of stability and certainty.
Kolor FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 – 2027 collection is built from materials that carry the weight of time: aged, dry-touch suiting; heavily wrinkled shirts; misaligned buttons. worn canvas; knits that appear frayed, as though the fabric itself is slowly unraveling. These elements, evocative of memory and the past, are fused with contemporary materials and modern techniques to create garments that feel as though they traverse time itself.
Like fragments of fabric salvaged from a shipwreck — washed ashore, clinging to the body by chance — the clothes appear assembled through accident and survival rather than design alone. Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is set on a remote island in the 1890s, where two lighthouse keepers, trapped by relentless storms, become increasingly obsessed with the lighthouse’s beam.
Seduction by light turns to madness; curses of mermaids, circling seagulls, hallucinations, and descent into insanity blur the boundary between myth and reality. Time flows not linearly, but in cycles — repetition, return, erosion. The sea, the passage of time, and the endlessly recurring motion of waves form a rhythm of collapse and resurgence. Moments dissolve like tides, only to rise again, reshaped but familiar.
In this collection, past and present collide — a wardrobe shaped by fear, endurance, and memory, drifting between history and now, as if illuminated intermittently by a distant lighthouse in the dark.
Creative Director of Kolor : Taro Horiuchi, Born in Tokyo, After Taro graduated from Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, he won the ITS Diesel Award. He has led his own brand “TARO HORIUCHI” and “th products”, while also contributing to “MUJI LABO” and “DESCENTE ALL TERRAIN”. He take on the role of Creative Director at kolor beginning Spring/Summer 2026.
All images Kolor FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 – 2027 by the brand. Credit to : Creative Director Taro Horiuchi, Casting Isabel Bush ( CONCRETE REP. ), Make up Stephanie Kunz ( Total World ), Hair Ramona Eschbach ( Total World ), Show Direction PaolinaVarenne (KIITYEVENTS), Music / Composition Kensuke Ushio ( Sony Music Publishing Japan Inc. ), Production KITTY EVENTS.