DESCENDANT

It seems likely the hot weather will linger for a while longer, but the mornings and evenings are starting to feel a bit more comfortable.
This time, we bring you the start of the 2025 Autumn & Winter collection from DESCENDANT KYOTO.

It has been more than 10 years since we began DESCENDANT. New things are created each season, but we also stock what seems necessary for daily life, in just the appropriate amounts. There is no need to wear only new clothes; rather, by wearing what you have worn until now, adding pieces that you felt were missing or wanted to try, and putting them together in your own way, that may be more than enough. It is more like an accumulation, year by year, being steadily built up.

I think that the things we make carry a hint of a certain era’s culture. That’s because we’ve taken the things we love and incorporated them into our everyday lives, bringing them into the present. The things we like do not change very much, but the things that influence us shift from time to time. From communicating with people, those influences are born, absorbed, and our way of thinking changes. The more we can find enjoyment in it, the more in sync it becomes with our creations.

This autumn, we collaborated, making things together with Post O’Alls. It is a brand founded in 1992 in Manhattan, New York, by Mr. Takeshi Ohfuchi. Based on pre-war American workwear, it has a worldview where the moods of different times intersect. We thought that if we could create our favorite workwear together with such a brand, something stimulating and new would be born, so we asked to have a shirt jacket, work trousers, and an engineer cap made.

I visit Kyoto occasionally. The fan with a whale design that I recently found in Tokyo also happened to be from a shop whose main store location is in Kyoto, and is in the same neighborhood as DESCENDANT KYOTO. I believe the first time I visited Kyoto was when I was in my second year of junior high school, and I have memories of traveling around the city with my aunts, who lived in Osaka at the time. In my twenties, I often went there for events, but my memories are only of the nights. Now, visiting as I’ve grown older, I feel as though the values of Kyoto as a place have broadened in ways I hadn’t experienced before.

Nishiyama Tetsu