For Paris Men’s Fashion Week Autumn-Winter 2026, Kenzo returns home, welcoming guests to the former residence of Kenzo Takada.

In the heart of the Bastille district, the 1600 sq. m house was designed by Kenzo Takada and his partner, the architect Xavier de Castella.

Imagined as an “oasis house”, it was a place of private sanctuary and creative vitality – a space for meditation and rest, as well as photoshoots, showrooms, and legendary parties.

Like Kenzo Takada’s eponymous Maison, the house brought together French and Japanese influences. Modelled in part on his father’s teahouse in Himeji, Hyōgo Province, the home included a space for tea ceremonies, an indoor swimming pool, traditional tatami floor mats, Shoji sliding doors, and a Japanese garden alive with bamboo, mosses, cherry trees, and a koi carp pond.

The Fall-Winter 2026 presentation reconnects with the singular essence of Kenzo and the core elements of Nigo’s dialogue with the house: an essential exchange between French and Japanese aesthetics, expressed through a collection that blends cultures, codes and archetypes.

A library room unveils a select curation from the Kenzo archive. Sketches, editorials, and invitations chart the evolution of Kenzo Takada’s creativity from the founding of his Maison in 1970 through to the late 1990s.