Mame Kurogouchi Fall/Winter 2026 at Paris Fashion Week

Mame Kurogouchi Fall/Winter 2026 / FW26 at Paris Fashion Week entitled “Reflection”

A beary mist drapes the distant mountains, an evening shower diszohes their contours. For Mame Kurogouchi FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 collection, composes clothing as “transparent landscapes,” where the shifting faces of mountains beyond a white veil are overlaid with the delicate ephemerality of Japanese Wa-glass, cultivated in Japan from the 17th century to the early 20th century.

Designer Maiko Kurogouchi, shaped by her days traveling between the mountains of her hometown Nagano and Tokyo, proposes clothing that transcends the divide between urban and natural realms, moving lightly through the liminal space between them. The “past,” embodied by the primal landscapes of her childhood revisited last season, quietly recedes, while in this collection her gaze turns to the scenes that colour the everyday of the “present,” observed through both micro and macro perspectives. The ridgelines emerging beyond the haze, the mountain surface lying beneath the ice, and the delicate texture of Japanese glass are studied as if carefully gaze through each fine particle of mist, and expressed as original textiles through diverse techniques of weaving, knitting, dyeing, and printing.

The unseen texture of the mountainside unfolding beyond the haze is woven with ultra-fine nylon spark yarn into a soft fabric that drifts like rising steam, and is transformed into dresses and blouses distinguished by asymmetrical draping.

The brand’s signature craft-based language merges with the design codes of outdoor wear, giving form to a consistent vision of “nature seen through a translucent veil”. Washi paper, cut into motifs of wild mountain flora-Primula Japonica, bell flower, and aconite are carefully hand-printed onto the fabric. This unique technique allows active pieces such as hooded coats and field jackets take on a quiet, poetic sensibility, like shadows gently wavering beyond a shujt screen. Sheer anoraks and capes, as if cloaked in frost-bound wildflowers or patterned glass itself, propose new ideas of layering while evoking a transparent landscape. An attentive gaze toward the everyday life ultimately leads to active looks where unique draping merges with iconic cord embroidery, inspired by the accidental forms created through the cloth wrappings used to protect farming tools.

The key palette of Mame Kurogouchi FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 is a green of profound depth. The freshness of new foliage, the deep shadows of trees glimpsed beyond dense mist, and a quiet longing for the emerald green once used in Japanese glass converge, enveloping the collection like a veil of haze-soft, yet imbued with warmth.

In the realm of accessories, the quiet undercurrent of a dialogue between nature and craftsmanship remains ever present. The silhouette of Japanese lady bell found in a mountain, evocative of delicate Japanese glass wind chimes, is reinterpreted in sculptural glass earrings and a necklace each piece capturing a fleeting sense of lightness and resonance. A new, unique leather accessories collection created in collaboration with Tsuchiya Kaban will be unveiled for the first time on the runway. Founded in 1965, the Japanese leather house Tsuchiya Kaban has refined the art of leathercraft to a rarefied precision through its pioneering work in “randoseru” schoolbags. That devotion and determination to craftsmanship finds new expression in the collaboration, giving form to supple curves and quiet strength: a bucket bag shaped in the brand’s signature cocoon silhouette, a leather vest that gently recalls the archetype of the school satchel, and small leather goods defined by their graceful contours. Details reminiscent of traditional Japanese handcraft trace the edges of each bag, while cocoon-shaped carabiners punctuate the collection with a subtle yet distinct presence. Through these gestures, a shared heritage emerges where reverence for craft converges with modern expression.