KENZO by NIGO’s Fall/Winter 2022 Collection Debut: First Drop

We have already designed a style for NIGO’s KENZO and the designer is eventually serving up the main course with the first drop of his Drop/Wintertime 2022 KENZO selection, his initially right seasonal affair with the property.

NIGO by now issued a couple confined edition KENZO collections more than the previous couple months, themed just after dwelling staples like the boke flower, washed denim, KENZO’s legendary tiger, and the poppy flower, a favourite of founder Kenzo Takada.

Takada has been a core inspiration for NIGO, in that NIGO’s blended his personal streetwear codes with Takada’s colorful money-F Manner.

The resulting KENZO clothes are wholly NIGO, to be confident, but steeped in Takada’s motifs. The elements that knowledgeable the higher than drops were borrowed from Takada’s oeuvre, for occasion, but so is NIGO’s emphasis on authentic outfits, the kinda things that can be effortlessly tossed on for any occasion.

Readily available now on KENZO’s site, this to start with Slide/Winter 2022 fall — to be adopted by two additional over the course of many months — comprises a assortment of hugely approachable assertion pieces abetted by leather products, equipment, and staple fundamental principles.

That means quintessentially KENZO items, like floral-loaded shirts and gauzey wool scarves, joined by the form of matters that you anticipate from a up to date luxurious label, like phone scenarios and clutch luggage.

NIGO’s KENZO is, by structure, not going to titillate any one who isn’t really by now plugged into the Human Produced founder’s distinctively laidback strategy to style.

These are clothes meant to be worn, and the price ranges replicate that. The most high priced piece is a flower-printed operate boot that retails for $1,065, followed by a $925 “workwear jacket” and poppy-printed trucker, with dungarees, “windcheater” anoraks, blazers, and cardigans rounding out the major-tier prices.

But the “affordable” things are in equally enough provide by way of $125 Iphone situations, $155 KENZO caps, and $170 boke flower T-shirts. Undoubtedly no bargains right here but as significantly as luxury labels go, this is all nicely in just aspirational position.

Of all the LVMH-owned homes, NIGO’s post-streetwear solution feels the most aligned with what youngsters on the avenue crave (and can find the money for).

The problem, of training course, is whether or not the entire world is all set for NIGO’s rejuvenated, youthful KENZO.