Taakk Morphs Textiles and Silhouettes for Fall 2025
Takuya Morikawa drew inspiration for Taakk’s fall collection from René Magritte — the designer’s mother had a book of the artist’s work when he was young — and from a robot his father had invented.
“He was always teaching me how to create things,” Morikawa said.
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Such out-of-the-box thinking has inspired the Japanese designer, who presented an innovative collection for fall 2025. Its silhouettes were less boxy than in the past, and Morikawa juxtaposed and morphed elements to eye-catching effect.
A traditional black silk Japanese jacket, featuring white-and-gray vegetal details, mutated into a zip-up sartorial jacket. That came paired with black trousers with matching white baste stitching. Magritte-like, a sweater-cum-jacket featured an image of a blue sky punctuated with clouds that was unfinished, with zips punctuating and fanning down from the skyscape.
Morikawa remains passionate about manipulating textiles. He fused herringbone, denim and a leopard pattern into one fabric. In another iteration, fur sprouted from a wool tweed and cotton material.
The result of all this was not disparate, but rather the creation of a luscious, luxe collection. Its colors remained sober, anchored by brown and black, and accented by burgundy, deep blue and rust.
Launch Gallery: Taakk Men's Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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