The buzziest womenswear debut on Tokyo Vogue Week’s slimmed down schedule this season is Yuka Kimura, a 27-year-old Yohji Yamamoto alum who began her personal model, Mukcyen (pronounced muh-shan), in 2023. Kimura is the winner of the JFW Subsequent Model Award 2026, and thus kicked off every week of exhibits along with her first outing for the model.
The present unfolded in a Dune-like palette of skintight attire, whereas the thick leather-based harnesses, corset jerkins, and chainmail detailing lent a medieval-vampire darkish fantasy vibe. Layered cupro attire, tops, and leggings clung and hung from the physique like bandages. Appropriately these seems to be have been a part of what the designer is looking the “second pores and skin sequence,” and had been infused with oil, which Kimura mentioned will increase the pores and skin’s moisture content material. Clothes meets skincare—helpful.
There have been deconstructed pink velour tracksuits too, and a few of the fashions nursed small beaten-up teddy bears on their sleeves, however any softness was neutralized by the dangerous-looking silver claws from Tokyo-based jewellery designer Fangophilia. Kimura, who has bleached hair and eyebrows and wears a number of body-con black, mentioned of her aesthetic: “I wish to look critical quite than enjoyable.”
In addition to a designer, Kimura is an influencer who has constructed a 200k-strong social following, her feed populated with the identical dystopian techno-goth vibes as her runway. And whereas it could be simple to put in writing her off as one other trend Instagrammer beginning their very own self-importance model, the style expertise and potential was clear at this primary outing. You possibly can definitely see these second pores and skin attire on Tokyo’s edgiest membership children. “The best individual I’m envisioning is somebody who’s assertive and unyielding,” she mentioned. “It’s about extra than simply being well-liked; I would like the ladies who put on my garments to really feel confident.”
