TAAKK

TAAKK introduced jewellery developed with 4°C / 4°C HOMME+ for Autumn/Winter 2026, including rings and pendants based on raw-mineral forms. The partnership returned for Spring/Summer 2027, making it a recurring collection collaboration across two consecutive completed seasons.

The Spring/Summer 2023 collection, presented in Paris on 21 June 2022, introduced TAAKK’s first formally described womenswear collection within the existing mainline. Womenswear continued as a seasonal category in subsequent official archives without developing a separate label, calendar or creative leadership.

TAAKK was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2021 LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers from an international field of applicants. The semi-final was conducted through a digital showroom in April 2021, placing Morikawa’s textile-led practice within the prize’s global emerging-designer cohort.

TAAKK presented in Paris for the first time with its Autumn/Winter 2020 collection in January 2020, using support from the Fashion Prize of Tokyo. Paris became the brand’s principal international presentation city, with later pandemic seasons temporarily delivered through digital and Tokyo-based formats.

Morikawa received the Fashion Prize of Tokyo for the 2020 cycle in October 2019. The programme supplied financial and logistical support for TAAKK’s move onto the Paris menswear schedule while the label remained independently operated by Morikawa’s studio.

TAAKK made its first verified international fashion-week calendar appearance in New York on 10 February 2018 with the Autumn/Winter 2018 collection. A second New York presentation followed that July through New York Men’s Day, extending the label’s international presentation strategy before its move to Paris.

TAAKK staged its first formal runway on 25 March 2017 at Shibuya Hikarie during Tokyo fashion week, presenting the Autumn/Winter 2017 collection. The show shifted the label from showroom and presentation formats into a public catwalk programme backed by the Tokyo Fashion Award.

TAAKK was selected for the Tokyo Fashion Award 2017 in late 2016, bringing institutional support to a label that had previously relied on exhibitions and wholesale presentations. The award led directly into the brand’s first formal Tokyo runway the following March.

For Autumn/Winter 2015, TAAKK introduced shirts and blousons in sizing intended to be wearable by women while remaining a menswear-led label. The OVERLAY collection was also shown in Taipei, adding an early overseas presentation before the brand’s later New York and Paris calendar phases.

TAAKK represented Japan at the Asia Fashion Federation conference in Bangkok in 2014, giving the young label an early international industry platform. The appearance preceded its later overseas collection presentations in Taipei, New York and Paris.

Morikawa received professional support through the Tokyo New Designer Fashion Grand Prix in 2013 during TAAKK’s first year of commercial activity. The recognition gave the young studio greater visibility and helped it establish early wholesale relationships in Japan.

TAAKK entered the market with its Spring/Summer 2013 collection, establishing Morikawa’s independent label after the formation of his studio the previous year. The first seasons were presented through small-scale exhibitions and wholesale activity in Japan.

With TAAKK’s first commercial season, Takuya Morikawa became the label’s continuing designer and principal creative authority. He has directed the brand’s collections from its early Tokyo wholesale years through its current Paris presentation programme.

Takuya Morikawa established Morikawa Design Studio in 2012 after leaving Issey Miyake Inc., creating the independent practice from which TAAKK emerged. The label made its commercial debut with the Spring/Summer 2013 collection.