TAAKK Spring-Summer 2025 Collection

TAAKK Spring-Summer 2025 Runway Show in Paris Date : Jun 23rd 2024 Venue : Palais de Tokyo Creative Director : Takuya Morikawa Styling : Elena Psalti (Shotview) Casting : WhiteCasting (Shotview) Show Director : Takashiro Saito (KuRoKo Inc.) Sound Director : Setsuya Kurotaki Hair & Make-Up : Teruaki Shinjo (Shiseido) Lighting : Michinari Marui (Toio) Production Lead : Kazuna Miyata (KuRoKo Inc.) Production : Julien Lacroix / TWOTWENTY Fashion Assistant : Ece Acarr / Chloe Dumesny Filmed by : Toyohiro Nakamura Photo : Ko Tsuchiya ------------------------------------------------------------ Themed ‘Yo-fuku’ As an island nation, Japan’s culture has developed in a unique fashion. In the latter years of the 19th century Japan was led towards modernization with heavy influences from the West, thus incorporating western cultures, lifestyles, and values into daily life. However Japan was unique in that it took these foreign cultures - incorporated and elevated these outsider elements into a perspective that was unique and ingenuous. Foods became Yo-shoku ( European Western style Food ); architecture became Yo-fu Kenchiku ( European Western style Architecture ) and fashion became Yo-fuku ( European Western style Fashion ). On a global scale, Japanese culture developed in a manner much akin to the Galapagos. ＊ Yo- meaning “European” or “Western” influences At times adding to and at other instances subtracting - the aesthetics of Japan have continued to create internatio