2027 S/S
"WHAT 38CM TELLS"
"WHAT 38CM TELLS"
Kimono have a fixed form, with the width of their fabric standardized across Japan.
38 centimeters. Approximately one-quarter the width of a conventional garment textile.
That narrowness should have been a serious constraint for any fashion designer.
And yet, there is a reason MIZEN remains devoted to kimono as a medium.
It is the relationship between "the designer" and "the artisan."
In the world of fashion, the designer's vision takes center stage, while the artisan's technique exists to support and realize that vision.
In the world of kimono, by contrast, the beauty born from the artisan's technique is what stands at the very center of value.
Not kimono as material — but this relationship itself, one we wish to weave into fashion.
Could technique ever become the protagonist?
Could fashion and kimono — these two worlds — ever truly meet?
