Spring 2026 is the sophomore effort from Kenta Miyamoto and Kunimasa Odagi at Engineered Clothes. That they’ve settled into their new roles sufficient to make a assured assertion was clear strolling into the label’s Lengthy Island Metropolis showroom. Over half of the gathering—and half of the area—was rendered fully in black and white. Paisleys, checkers, houndstooths, stripes—you identify the graphic, it’s doubtless that it featured on this lineup.
And it labored, too. Engineered Clothes has made a degree of amalgamating visible components, with various levels of effectiveness, season to season. Right here, the concept of using black and white as an aesthetic gave the gathering an organizational precept of types. Their reference was The Specials’ debut album, Particular, from 1979, however this was a well timed effort—among the fashions within the lookbook put on checkered black-and-white slip-on footwear. That very same type, popularized by Vans, has made its means again into style of late.
A 3rd of the gathering was rendered in shade. It made for a hanging distinction within the showroom, because it does on this lookbook. Shut inspection revealed that there was not a lot relation between the black-and-white materials and graphic and the colourful ones. It was a wise option to keep away from a type of technicolor gimmick—right here’s the B&W and right here’s the colour—nevertheless it additionally made for what felt like two totally different collections. Two good trying ones, that’s.
