Presented during Autumn/Winter 2026 in Tokyo, the collection unfolds as an immersive journey where fear, memory and fantasy collapse into a single, disquieting space.
There is a moment, just before entering, when the body already senses what is about to happen. That threshold defines the experience proposed by MIKIOSAKABE, presented within the framework of Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo. Rather than a runway, the collection takes shape as an environment to be crossed, a narrative to be inhabited.
Set inside a 90-year-old Japanese house reimagined as a haunted structure, the presentation unfolds across ten dimly lit rooms. Each one holds a fragment: a figure, a gesture, a suspended scene. The audience does not sit and observe but moves, hesitates, reacts. Fear becomes physical, almost tactile, guiding the rhythm of the experience. What emerges is not a sequence of looks but a succession of sensations.
The idea of the forgotten lingers throughout, shaping both space and garment. Memory appears unstable, fragmented, as if the collection were built from what remains after something has already disappeared. This sense of absence translates into clothing that feels slightly displaced, familiar yet altered.
Garments appear partially obscured by darkness but leave clear impressions: twisted blouses that distort the silhouette, knitwear punctured with irregular holes, sharply constructed shoulders that interrupt the line of the body, and school uniforms reworked into something uncanny. A distorted kawaii aesthetic runs through the collection, where innocence coexists with discomfort. The pieces remain wearable, yet they seem to belong to a parallel reality, one governed by different emotional codes.
Here, horror does not function as spectacle but as language. It opens a space where fantasy can emerge, where clothing is not simply shown but felt. The collection resists immediate clarity, asking instead for a slower, more intuitive engagement.
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