Fresh off a headline-making venture with Pharrell at Louis Vuitton, NIGO is turning heads again with a new partnership at KENZO. This Fall 2025 menswear lineup sees him team up with Futura, a close friend since the ’90s. “I met Futura for the first time in 1996, in Tokyo. I was a big fan. The first time I met him, he wore one of my designs. It was a windbreaker I had made with detachable half-sleeves. And we started communication back then. So I often went to see him in New York and he also came to see me in Japan.” The two have stayed connected ever since, and this collaboration marks another chapter in their ongoing creative dialogue.
Futura stepped into the show wearing a piece stamped with his signature atom icon reimagined for the new season. He applied his recognizable brushwork to KENZO’s floral heritage, layering a graffiti-like spray across jackets and wide-legged pants. One of the striking details is a reworked house logo that covers everything from shopping totes to baguette carriers, a nod to the bustle of ’90s New York street life and Futura’s own history of merging art with everyday objects. NIGO also revisited an idea from Futura’s earlier work using the word “fragile” in Japanese, giving the pieces an extra spark of nostalgia.
This collection is meant for the commuter on a fast-paced trek from Tokyo to Paris. Sweaters borrow from the electric colors of vintage pachinko machines, while the Kenzo Weave pattern keeps its place across denim and jacquard. NIGO—appointed as KENZO’s creative director back in 2021—draws on personal memories as he continues to fuse the brand’s codes with fresh perspective. He even riffed on references from the Fall 1998 Orient Express collection, using views of Mount Fuji and Paris as graphic elements that capture the East-meets-West ethos.
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At a moment when KENZO is expanding its influence among a new wave of shoppers, this latest outing shows how two longtime collaborators can breathe new life into classic motifs. As NIGO and Futura bridge their backgrounds with style, the result is an offering that feels current without losing its sense of history.
