In the heart of Paris, amid the cultural ferment of Art Basel, the exhibition “TYPE-XIV Eugene Studio Project” transcends the boundaries between art and fashion, inviting visitors into a universe where every shade is born from a deep exploration of the very nature of matter and time. Here, the collaboration between Issey Miyake and artist Eugene Kangawa unfolds as a creative tension between tradition and the avant-garde. The project stems from a dialogue—an exchange of ideas and intuitions between the A-POC ABLE team and Kangawa. On one side, the poetic world of “Light and Shadow Inside Me”, where sun-treated paper becomes a tale of absence and revelation, and monochrome frames bend light into silent architectures. On the other, Miyamae and his engineers translate these concepts into the weave and warp of a fabric made solely of black and white threads—where gradations, shadows, and light emerge from density and internal structure rather than pigment, as if digital technology and sartorial craftsmanship were meeting at a “bit level”.
“Everything that exists already carries light and shadow within itself, even before forming any relationship with others. What I have sought is a form of painting, or two-dimensional work, in which the piece itself enacts this condition.”
In this setting, fashion opens itself to art as a space of infinite possibilities: clothing does not conceal but reveals, photography does not capture but transforms, sculpture does not immobilize but invites movement. What emerges is not only beauty, but also an awareness of gesture and the value of inquiry. TYPE-XIV Eugene Studio Project thus becomes a true threshold between discipline and freedom, between the invisible and the visible, between the ancient and the future. Paris embraces its vibration as a promise: here, matter is light, light is history, and every visitor, in the rhythm of shadows, can seek their own metamorphosis.
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