Story by Editor-at-Large CAROLINA OGLIARO
At London Fashion Week, Toga delivered a collection that blurred the line between elegance and provocation, pushing forward its ongoing dialogue between structure and disruption. Silhouettes were heightened and dramatized, pleats swelling into sculptural volumes, gowns trailing with cinematic presence, and sharply tailored pieces interrupted by unexpected slashes and layering. Boots grounded the looks with a strong sense of weight while leather and vinyl introduced a fetish-tinged edge, their sheen offsetting the soft architecture of fabric. Double belts and metallic accents functioned as declarations, amplifying the idea of clothes as both armor and ornament.
What emerged was a vision of radical modernity: stark, architectural, and unafraid of confrontation. Toga’s SS26 talks about a fashion that needs not whisper or console; it can insist and transform the wearer into a figure of presence. This is not a sudden turn but the deepening of Yasuko Furuta’s long-standing vocabulary of controlled rebellion, a lexicon she has refined across seasons by marrying severity with fluidity, discipline with rupture.
With SS26, that tension crystallized into a kind of defiant grace , proof that Toga’s vision is not just about clothing but about staking out space in a world that too often asks women to retreat.
