ssstein Spring/Summer 2026
by Adriano Batista
For ssstein’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Japanese designer Kiichiro Asakawa digs deeper into the kind of beauty that doesn’t announce itself. The inspiration comes from photography, not as literal references, but as feelings. A Corinne Day image of knitwear glowing in soft light stayed with him. The work of Mark Borthwick and Anders Edström, photographers who find poetry in the everyday, lingers in the background. But in Asakawa’s studio, there are no moodboards. Instead, the designer translates these impressions into fabric, texture, and cuts that carry emotion without explanation.
The magic is in the materials. Asakawa obsesses over weaving techniques, tweaking threads until the result has just the right depth. Even simple colors gain richness through his precision. A custom cotton-rayon blend shimmers faintly because the warp and weft threads differ slightly in tone. Sulphur-dyed fabric gets washed out, then finished with two pigments: one sprayed, one rubbed in by hand. Leather is oil-treated to an uneven brown. Shirts and gauzy knits come in powdery blues, mint greens, and butter yellows, while knitwear gets a sudden hit of poppy red, a color he tested repeatedly to find the perfect intensity.
Check out the collection below:
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