At Home With Kenzo: Nigo Stages the Fall/Winter 2026 Campaign at Kenzo Takada’s Paris Maison
Paris fashion house KENZO has unveiled “At Home With Kenzo,” its Fall/Winter 2026 women’s and men’s campaign. Artistic director Nigo returns to the place at the heart of the brand’s story: La Maison de Kenzo, the Paris residence left behind by founder Kenzo Takada.
The campaign stars actor Lukita Maxwell and actor and pro skater Nico Hiraga, with a pop-up event bringing the collection to Tokyo’s Harajuku district in August.
Photographed by Laura Jane Coulson. Courtesy of KENZO
Summary
- KENZO has unveiled “At Home With Kenzo,” its Fall/Winter 2026 women’s and men’s campaign under Nigo
- The setting is La Maison de Kenzo, the Bastille residence founder Kenzo Takada conceived as an “urban oasis”
- Shot by Laura Jane Coulson, the campaign stars Lukita Maxwell and Nico Hiraga
- Key pieces include a modern reinterpretation of an embroidered organza skirt from the Spring/Summer 1994 archive, bold cowboy shirts and unexpected Chinese pankou details
- A pop-up event runs August 6-9, 2026 at GATE in Harajuku, Tokyo
Inside Kenzo Takada’s “Urban Oasis”
Tucked quietly into Paris’s Bastille district, La Maison de Kenzo was conceived by Kenzo Takada as a place for rest, reflection, creation and celebration. Surrounded by bamboo groves, cherry trees and a pond where koi released by Takada himself still swim, the residence becomes the stage for a campaign exploring two notions of home: the comfort of a place, and the comfort found within oneself.
Reading, Wandering, Parallel Play: A Story Told by the House
Shot by photographer and director Laura Jane Coulson, the campaign follows Maxwell — known for the comedy drama Shrinking and A24’s Backrooms — and Hiraga, who moves between acting, professional skateboarding and modeling, as they drift through the house and garden as if they have always belonged there. Through moments of parallel play — reading, wandering, inventing games, sharing space — a relationship quietly takes shape.
The campaign evokes a way of engaging with the world rooted in curiosity and imagination, finding joy in people, objects and surroundings rather than technology. Long cherished as a site of legendary gatherings and creative exchange, the house itself takes part in the story as an active presence rather than a backdrop, its airy, light-filled spaces inviting openness and exploration.
From a 1994 Organza Skirt to Pankou Details
Key pieces include a contemporary reinterpretation of an embroidered organza skirt from the Spring/Summer 1994 archive, its floral motifs extending into new styles including a men’s jacket worn by Hiraga. The wardrobe also spans tricolor stripes, bold cowboy shirts, two-tone neo-tailoring, classic varsity jackets and unexpected Chinese pankou closure details.
Reinterpreting archival silhouettes and motifs through a contemporary lens, Nigo freely samples the house’s history and a broad range of cultural codes, creating a wardrobe that moves lightly across place, tradition and identity — an embodiment of the dialogue at KENZO’s core, between France and Japan, tradition and reinterpretation, elegance and humor.
A Pop-Up at Harajuku’s GATE in August
From August 6 to 9, 2026, a limited-time pop-up event at GATE in Harajuku, Tokyo (6-5-10 Jingumae, Shibuya; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.) will bring the Fall/Winter 2026 collection to life, offering shopping alongside exclusive content and purchase-with-purchase perks. Details will be announced via KENZO’s official LINE account and website, with contents subject to change.
Translating the story that began in Kenzo Takada’s private world into a contemporary wardrobe, “At Home With Kenzo” offers two homes in which to experience the house’s fall season — a Paris maison and a Harajuku pop-up.
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