Presented on Friday, October 3, at Centre Pompidou, the ISSEY MIYAKE Spring Summer 2026 collection Being Garments, Being Sentient is a series of sartorial explorations founded upon the question: “What if garments are conscious?” By going beyond the conventions and preconceptions about garments, the collection draws inspiration from the unexpected and the absent, to build a new portrayal of clothing.

Clothing serves to cover the body and shield it from different environments; it is also a means to express, stage, or adorn oneself, and, like a uniform, it represents identity and affiliation. This collection, while conscious of the functional, expressive, and socio-cultural roles of clothing, treats garments as if they were living beings—endowed with self-awareness and capable of expressing intent. Based on this hypothesis, clothing as well as the act of wearing are reimagined with greater freedom and richer expression, opening up a new relationship between the wearer and the worn.

GENERIC WEAR
GENERIC WEAR: STRIPES
GENERIC WEAR: SPEAKING

Paper, Nylon, Cotton, Polyurethane

What if Garments Are Conscious?

What if clothing were a living being with its own consciousness? It would break free from its fabricated form to grow. GENERIC WEAR explores the hypothetical idea of garments that grow and shed their skin, portraying clothing as something with transformative freedom. By incorporating this concept into familiar styles like T-shirts and hoodies, the contrast brings out the striking, evolving nature of the silhouette.

ARMS

Polyester, Cotton, Polyurethane

Garments Animated

By attaching sleeves in unexpected locations, ARMS creates a playful sense of dissonance that highlights the contrast with the wearer’s own limbs. This intentional contrast emphasizes the rearranged garment parts. The jacket can be styled in multiple ways, such as wearing it with one arm out, offering the wearer freedom in dressing oneself.

PEU FORM³

Artificial Leather

Footwear Proliferating

PEU FORM³ translates Peu Form—a collaboration with Camper presented in the Autumn Winter 2025/26 collection—into garments. The design features non-conventional shapes, drawing inspiration from the idea of Peu Form merging with clothing and multiplying like a living organism. These fluid, unstructured forms drape softly and expansively, wrapping the body in a single sheet of artificial leather. The result is a strikingly organic being, contrasting the notion of tailored clothing.

A SHOPPER’S BODY

Nylon, Polyurethane

Insatiable Desire to Shop

A SHOPPER’S BODY speaks to the state of excessive consumption of consumerism—when the act of buying becomes so overwhelming that it’s all consuming. By incorporating various “objects” into the wearer’s body, the garment imposes defined contours onto the body’s natural shape. Made from a thin, stretchy jersey that functions like a second skin, this series features large, practical pockets placed in unconventional locations.

PALINDROME

Wool, Polyester, Triacetate

Merging Interior and Exterior

PALINDROME challenges the conventional notion of “interior” and “exterior” in clothing, allowing either side to be worn as the exterior. What would typically be considered the lining is constructed in the form of a shirt, subtly marked with small ISSEY MIYAKE logos. When the shirt is worn, it appears as though a shirt is layered under the jacket. When worn inside out, the wearer looks as if they are wearing a shirt on the back.

CONCEALED

Paper, Nylon, Cotton, Polyurethane

Conceal to Reveal

CONCEALED begins with a simple pattern and treats the body and the unfilled space around it as a single canvas. A tubular piece of fabric gently wraps around the body to complete the garment form. By focusing on the unfilled space between the body and the cloth, CONCEALED uncovers new sculptural shapes—shifting attention from the garment itself to the volume it creates when worn.

URBAN JUNGLE JERSEY

Triacetate, Polyester, Polyurethane

URBAN JUNGLE

Polyester

Absorbed in Plant’s Vitality

These two series draw inspiration from palm species like windmill palms seen in urban environments—plants that thrive with resilience even when confined to narrow spaces. Their vigorous growth was captured in photographs (URBAN JUNGLE JERSEY) and translated into garment form (URBAN JUNGLE), as if wearing the plants themselves. The photographic print faithfully depicts the environment in which they grow, while the pleated fabric, resembling the form of plants, is supple yet structured, evoking the texture of their resilient leaves.

ADVENTITIOUS: SLEEVES

Triacetate, Polyester

ADVENTITIOUS: HIGH-NECKS

Cotton, Polyester

Chance within Form

Inspired by the way plants grow freely in all directions, ADVENTITIOUS is inspired by the idea of bringing a sense of “life” into garments that are usually constructed from patterns. Sleeves, collars, and openings are placed in unexpected positions on a tubular knit, allowing for multiple ways of wearing. Layering this series further expands the possibilities. As the garment becomes more open to interpretation, so too does the wearer’s body—and their relationship with the act of dressing—becoming freer and more expressive.

CAMPER x ISSEY MIYAKE
Karst Finch

CAMPER × ISSEY MIYAKE presents Karst Finch, the first pair of sneakers of this series of collaborations, building upon another one of Camper’s most distinctive models, Karst​​. The design plays with the idea of mounting a lightweight, stretch upper onto the signature outsole, inspired by the rocky geographical formations that give the shoe its name.

Following Peu Form that celebrates both brands’ heritage, Karst Finch looks at another of their common themes: playfulness. Such playfulness is present not only in Karst Finch’s design, but also in its color combinations, inspired by the plumage of a variety of finches. Named after the small, endearing songbird with colorful feathers, Karst Finch conveys a sense of freedom—to walk freely and unbound—found in its comfortable fit, lightweightness, and durability. It comes with two pairs of socks—one matching the shoe’s colors and the other contrasting—allowing the wearer to mix and match for a personalized style.

About the Soundscape by Tarek Atoui
This unique collaboration with ISSEY MIYAKE stems from Tarek Atoui’s improvisation series—a methodology for composing sound and space, in which he draws instruments and materials from different projects and bodies of work, bringing them together in singular configurations and articulations.

For this collaboration, the artist was inspired by the acoustic and textural properties of the textiles that constitute the collection, integrating them into the composition so they become an essential part of his performance and work. Reinterpreting the collection theme of fabrication vs. the living, Atoui draws on a collection of organic and primary materials such as stone and water, animal skins used in the making of drums from Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Korea, as well as pottery and porcelain ceramics—incorporating these diverse elements into his sound and spatial composition.

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