kolor presented its Autumn Winter 2026 collection. This season unfolds around the keywords “Lighthouse Keeper / Voyage / Fear / Night / Mythic Sea / Survival.”
The image that runs through the collection is that of a raging winter sea and the solitary time of a lighthouse keeper standing against it.
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The sensation of a body battered by cold water, almost torn apart by waves. From this extreme condition emerge garments that intersect materials evocative of past memories with contemporary techniques. Aged, dry-touch suiting; shirts etched with deep creases; deliberately misaligned buttons; weathered canvas; knits that appear to fray and unravel. Each element distances itself from notions of “perfection,” instead carrying traces of time, wear, and use. When fused with modern materials and structures, the garments rise as fragments that feel as though they traverse different eras.
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As if pieces of fabric washed ashore from a shipwreck had clung to the body by chance. The collection drifts between intention and accident, memory and the present. One of its key inspirations is Robert Eggers’s film The Lighthouse. Set on a remote island in the 1890s, the story follows two lighthouse keepers trapped by a storm, gradually descending into madness under the spell of the light. Mermaids’ curses, seagulls, hallucinations—these motifs evoke distortions of time and psychological instability. In a similar way, kolor’s garments this season exist outside a linear timeline, shaped instead by repetition and return.
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“Time.”
“The sea.”
“The waves.”
Within endlessly repeating rhythms, moments dissolve like the ebb and flow of the tide, only to re-emerge again. Clothing here is not fixed as a completed form, but presented as something that continues to change through the wearer’s body, movement, and the passage of time.
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Taro Horiuchi, who assumed the role of Creative Director of kolor from the Spring Summer 2026 collection, brings a sensibility rooted in photography, his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and years of creative practice—quietly permeating this season’s work.
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The kolor Autumn Winter 2026 collection is not clothing designed to tell a story outright. Rather, it is an attempt to let layers of fear, solitude, and memory be felt through material, structure, and a sense of time. Like a turbulent sea—uncertain yet undeniably present—the garments leave a lingering, silent resonance with the viewer.
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The image that runs through the collection is that of a raging winter sea and the solitary time of a lighthouse keeper standing against it.
Courtesy of kolorThe sensation of a body battered by cold water, almost torn apart by waves. From this extreme condition emerge garments that intersect materials evocative of past memories with contemporary techniques. Aged, dry-touch suiting; shirts etched with deep creases; deliberately misaligned buttons; weathered canvas; knits that appear to fray and unravel. Each element distances itself from notions of “perfection,” instead carrying traces of time, wear, and use. When fused with modern materials and structures, the garments rise as fragments that feel as though they traverse different eras.
Courtesy of kolorAs if pieces of fabric washed ashore from a shipwreck had clung to the body by chance. The collection drifts between intention and accident, memory and the present. One of its key inspirations is Robert Eggers’s film The Lighthouse. Set on a remote island in the 1890s, the story follows two lighthouse keepers trapped by a storm, gradually descending into madness under the spell of the light. Mermaids’ curses, seagulls, hallucinations—these motifs evoke distortions of time and psychological instability. In a similar way, kolor’s garments this season exist outside a linear timeline, shaped instead by repetition and return.
Courtesy of kolor“Time.”
“The sea.”
“The waves.”
Within endlessly repeating rhythms, moments dissolve like the ebb and flow of the tide, only to re-emerge again. Clothing here is not fixed as a completed form, but presented as something that continues to change through the wearer’s body, movement, and the passage of time.
Courtesy of kolorTaro Horiuchi, who assumed the role of Creative Director of kolor from the Spring Summer 2026 collection, brings a sensibility rooted in photography, his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and years of creative practice—quietly permeating this season’s work.
Courtesy of kolorThe kolor Autumn Winter 2026 collection is not clothing designed to tell a story outright. Rather, it is an attempt to let layers of fear, solitude, and memory be felt through material, structure, and a sense of time. Like a turbulent sea—uncertain yet undeniably present—the garments leave a lingering, silent resonance with the viewer.
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