EENK Fall/Winter 2026 / FW26 at Paris Fashion Week entitled D for Duplicity
EENK FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 collection, the fourth chapter in its ongoing Letter Project, is entitled D for Duplicity. But in this instance, duplicity is not a moral failing but rather a sartorial truth: two identities occupy a single form, with neither canceling the other out. Exterior and interior, femininity and masculinity, restraint and expansion — the tension between these is held rather than resolved, and its interest lives precisely in that gap.
This season explores what to present and what to fold inward. EENK answers that question with a lineup of disciplined lines, rich volumes in fluid draping and a single silhouette capable of holding two structures simultaneously. Reversible jackets and coats turn inside out to reveal unexpected ‘other’ selves; shirts and outerwear shift shape through buttons. A restrained palette of black, beige, and ivory incorporates accents of vivid red, baby blue and mint, while a rose motif — reinterpreted through layering and structural form — moves through the collection as a sculptural presence.
This Paris Fashion Week, EENK FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 collection is presented at YOYO at the Palais de Tokyo in a format designed to be experienced through individual movement and perspective. Like the clothes themselves, this show holds several layers of meaning, which shift constantly depending on where the viewer stands.
Choreography specially created for EENK FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 presentation features two dancers who embody the many facets of a single identity. Through a play of reflections and contrast, their bodies express the duality inherent in everyone: strength and fragility, control and surrender, unity and opposition. By turns in sync or dissociated, they draw closer, push one another away and transform, like two reflections of the same presence. Their movement translates tension and balance, the blurring of boundaries, and the emergence of an identity that is fluid, plural and deeply human. Music by Studio Ingmar* for EENK embodies the collection’s themes through contrasting layers, evoking nature and the city, electronic textures, winter and spring. Captured in the French Alps, the sounds of nature recall the fragility and promise of winter melting into spring, shifting directions according to different narrative elements. These looks were achieved using high-performance hair products by Uberliss, including prestige formulations including the shine-enhancing RituOil, the flexible-hold Flexin Hairspray and the texturizing Powder Bliss Dry Shampoo.
About EENK, EENK was founded in Seoul in 2013 by Hyemee Lee, a designer whose practice spans womenswear, menswear, childrenswear and fabric design. Her fascination with letterforms, print and the tactile culture of publishing is rooted in her youth, as her father owned a printing business — an environment that instilled in her a lasting belief in making as a form of inscription//expression, and in the power of objects to carry meaning throughout time. The brand’s name — a variation on the word “INK,” styled around the recurring Es in her first and last names — is both an homage to her origins and a statement of intent. Before establishing EENK, Lee worked in womenswear, menswear and childrenswear forseveral labels, including stints in European and Korean fashion houses. That breadth of experience informs EENK’s fluency across registers and its resistance to easy categorizations. Each Letter Project collection is a chapter in an unfolding narrative that has carried the brand from its Seoul Fashion Week debut to six runway presentations in Paris, and into boutiques including Printemps and Antonia. Having grown to a team of 40, with five retail locations across South Korea, EENK is building toward what Lee has long held as a defining ambition: to establish the first truly global Korean fashion house.
All images EENK FW26 / Fall/Winter 2026 by the brand. Credit to : Designer/Creative Director Hyemee Lee @byhemee, Stylist Edward Bowleg III @edward.bowleg @streetersagency, Casting Director Arthur Méjean @arthurmejean, Hair Artist Tsuki at Streeters using Uberliss @tsukihair @streetersagency @uberliss, Make-up Artist Yuki Hayashi @yukihayashi89, Show Producer Devi Sok @devisok, Choreographer Manon Dubourdeaux @manondubourdeaux, Performers Zoé/Clementine @zoeleotyducros @clem.dumas, Runway Photo Collective Parade @collective_parade, BTS Photo: Ronan Brun @ronanbrun, Video Studio Premices @studio.premices, Music Studio Ingmar @studioingmar, PR ROMCOM @romcom.global, *Studio Ingmar music studio was founded by Thérèse Boon Falleur and Alice Orpheus.