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Chika Kisada Tokyo Spring 2027
['Ashley Ogawa Clarke']
Vogue
Like many Tokyo designers this season, Chika Kisada is forgoing a runway show to focus more on sales and her showrooms, while also producing a lookbook.
Kisada’s calling card is taking ballet—though she’s been doing balletcore long before it blew up on TikTok—and inoculating it with a shot of punk.
“In ballet, it’s a fundamental concept about opening up one’s joints and cultivating a specific physical sensation,” she said during a walkthrough.
Usually intended to constrict the body and squish one’s soft tissues into an hourglass shape, Kisada reinterprets them in a way she finds freeing.
She lightened everything up with rainbow-colored beads and tiny ribbons that drew on childhood nostalgia.