T.T. and KANEGAE Transform Kyoto Deer into Fashion
A Kyoto project turns culled deer into archival garments and art, while bridal designer Lihi Hod opens her first U.S. flagship in New York.
Two distinct fashion narratives unfold this week, one rooted in material transformation in Kyoto and the other in brand expansion in New York. The first sees a collaborative project repurposing discarded deer parts into a capsule collection and artworks. The second marks a bridal designer's major stateside retail debut during New York Bridal Fashion Week.
Archival Revival from Miyama
Taiga Takahashi's label T.T. and Kyoto gallery KANEGAE have unveiled "What Are Materials Today?", a project using materials from deer culled in Miyama, Kyoto. The collaboration involves four artists-ceramists Kansai Noguchi and Ryuta Fukumura, sculptor Ryoho Otake, and painter Syotatsu-who transform hide, bone, soil, and soot into garments and standalone artworks.
The project addresses the waste of hides and bones after local deer culls. The resulting apparel includes the Lot 802 Cossack leather jacket, patterned after a 1930s design and dyed with sumi ink made from kiln soot and deer-hide glue. Buttons are hand-carved from deer bone. Other pieces reinterpret historical workwear, like the Lot 303 Coverall jacket, which features hand-brushed calligraphy or paint made from ground deer bone. The Lot 316 Sack coat includes buttons glazed with Miyama soil and deer bone. Beyond clothing, each artist creates individual pieces, such as Noguchi's ceramics with bone ash glazes and Otake's delicate carvings from a deer's shoulder blade.
The collection releases via HBX and opens at ISETAN SALONE in Tokyo from October 14 to 18. Further exhibitions will follow in Kyoto and Hangzhou.
Lihi Hod's New York Flagship
Bridal designer Lihi Hod opened her first flagship store outside Tel Aviv in New York's Chelsea gallery district, coinciding with New York Bridal Fashion Week. The Israeli designer, who previously worked with John Galliano at Dior, collaborated with interior decorator Yael Gutreich Oron on the three-story space, which features warm wood accents and a creamy palette.
Hod stated the design allows the dresses to become the art, with graphic black touches and symbolic olive trees reflecting her Middle Eastern roots. A wall of black-and-white photos lines the entryway. She will co-operate the store with Giselle Dubois, founder of the salon Spina Bride, noting the U.S. is one of her strongest markets. The opening also served as the launch for her fall 2027 bridal collection, dubbed "Odysséey" and inspired by 1980s glamour, alongside a new fragrance in perfume, candle, and diffuser forms.
