Presented on Friday, March 6, at Carrousel du Louvre in the center of Paris, the ISSEY MIYAKE Autumn Winter 2026/27 collection, Creating, Allowing, is an investigation of the question: as designers, to what extent should we insist upon our intent to “create”? Or, is it perhaps the deliberate will to leave things open and unfinished that “allows” inherent beauty to reveal itself?

This collection explores the relationship between deliberate intervention in design and the absence of it, the unfilled space. It is about letting go of the desire to maintain control throughout a creative process, and—upon recognizing the nature of materials as they are—designing only to the extent of framing the beauty found in the materiality as worn on the human body.