tao

tao is Tao Kurihara’s current line within the Comme des Garçons universe, emerging from the tricot lineage while returning her authorship to public view in a new form. It carries the softness, textile sensitivity and hand-touched intelligence associated with Kurihara’s earlier work, but with a clearer contemporary identity: calmer, more open, and less tied to the finite archival chapter of Tao Comme des Garçons.

The line works through cloth, texture, ease and carefully held intimacy rather than spectacle. Knit, layering, lightness, workwear traces, domestic tactility and quiet construction give tao a language that feels close to the body without becoming slight. Its relationship to tricot Comme des Garçons and Tao Comme des Garçons is a matter of lineage, not sameness: tao is the current public structure for Kurihara’s continuing womenswear vocabulary inside CDG, with its own selected collection history and present-tense identity.

tao works through textile-led clothing, softer construction, surface, craft and intimate scale. Its philosophy is quieter than the larger architectural force often associated with the Comme des Garçons mainline, but it is not passive. Cloth, knit, layering, texture and looseness become ways of building presence without theatrical volume; the garments sit close to daily life while retaining Kurihara’s exactness of touch.

The line’s strength lies in making softness feel considered rather than merely gentle. tao treats ease as a design problem: how fabric falls, how layers meet, how craft can remain visible without becoming decorative trumpery. Its relationship to tricot Comme des Garçons and Tao Comme des Garçons stays present as lineage, but the current line has its own tone: less archival echo than renewed authorship, with intimacy, tactility and restraint as its working instruments.