CFCL Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear

Business featured CFCL designer Yusuke Takahashi as one of this year’s 100 Innovators and Sustainability Thought Leaders. Two years ago, the brand became the first apparel company in Japan to win B Corp status. Today at the Palais de Tokyo, the fashion world got a chance to lean in a little closer and see just what kind of new fashion era the designer is striving to materialize. Called Knit-ware Handbuilt, the collection explored the nexus of a state-of-the-art 3D computer knitting technique and the handiwork that has been passed down across cultures and generations all over the world for millennia. Backstage before the show, Takahashi offered that he also had been delving into the writings of French social anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who posited that the mind—more than the environment—dictates culture.