CFCL Spring 2026 Ready-to-Wear

On the final day of Fashion Week, CFCL founder Yusuke Takahashi presented Knit-ware: Concreteness, a collection inspired by Jean Arp’s biomorphic sculptures and his philosophy of pursuing natural forms over figurative interpretation. In the spirit of equality, the designer also nodded to Arp’s wife, the textile artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, in graceful A-line dresses with perforated, terraced sections—a standout in a strong show set to live chamber music by the Danish act TLF Trio. “I discovered I shared Arp’s perspective, because he wanted to create concrete artwork, not copy nature,” Takahashi explained backstage before the show. “I wanted to keep a distance from designing clothes as a medium for expressing something instead of updating them as a tool for going out and facing society and its realities.