PARIS – Kolor is closing a chapter.
After 20 years, founder and designer Junichi Abe is stepping down as head designer of the model. He revealed his retirement on the fall 2025 present, closing with a lap across the runway and a bow.
Getting into the Area Neimeyer, the place the present was held, every visitor was given a handwritten letter.
“This will probably be a particular second for me, as a result of it is going to be my final present as Kolor head designer. Even after this season, I’ll keep to help Kolor from the within. Thanks for all these years, and I hope we could have your continued help for Kolor.”
Abe will keep on with the model as an adviser. A successor and new designer “will probably be introduced very quickly,” a consultant for the model mentioned.
Company had been additionally gifted a T-shirt that learn, “Thanks and farewell.”
Abe based the home in 2005 primarily based on basic sportswear as a part of the Japanese wave. He’s married to Sacai designer Chitose Abe. He launched an ongoing collaboration with Adidas in 2015.
He’s recognized for his meticulous consideration to element and creative use of textures and layering, with an architectural strategy to minimalism, all with a sportswear bent. Abe paid particular consideration to tailoring and craft to assemble males’s and girls’s collections.
Abe studied at Tokyo’s Bunka Style School after which labored as a patternmaker at Yohji Yamamoto and Comme de Garçons, earlier than he moved to Junya Watanabe. He launched the label PPCM in 1994, happening to discovered Kolor 10 years later.
In current collections he had been exploring nostalgia, and had rediscovered his love of snowboarding and the outside.