All-Black Winterwear Doesn't Have To Be Boring
There’s that one Yohji Yamamoto quote about the color black: “Black says, ‘I don’t bother you — you don’t bother me!’”. And it’s something that’s understood among the more well known “severe” brands — Yohji, COMME, and the like — as a high-fashion standoffish vibe. But, what about those lesser-known labels whose laser-focus on materials accomplish the same all-black-bringer-of-darkness vibe?
Two such brands, Ten C and Comoli, have done just that. Their latest collaboration for FW26 is eight all-black pieces of nerdy artisanal winter-wear. It’s a proper mingling of the minds, bringing together Ten C’s Original Japanese Jersey (OJJ) with Comoli’s signature Japanese cotton flannel, crinkled ripstop nylon, satin, and brushed stretch wool within the latter imprint’s preferred shade: inky black. Together, Ten C and Comoli make pitch-dark fabric and artisanal focal point, where the details add needed character to otherwise monochrome look. In essence, this is how to wear all black without being boring.
It’s always lovely to see when two brands of similar ethics come together, and even better when it’s two particularly purpose-driven partners. Alessandro Pungetti and Paul Harvey, the minds behind Ten C (and previously at C.P. Company and Stone Island), built Ten C around the idea that you actually can make clothing that lasts forever — or at least, clothing that ought to. OJJ is a perfect example of this, a hardy (and proprietary) polyester-nylon fabric that only develops more character through wear.
Comoli is similarly soft-spoken, with founder Keijiro Komori only recently taking the brand to Instagram last year despite it being over 15 years old. Komori’s own press-shy approach to design is equally refined and relaxed, emphasizing fabric-sensitive cuts like the collaborative hooded coat that emphasizes its own tactility even while being defined by its oversized silhouette.
This collaboration feels like a rejection of conceptualization. Its singular shade offsets the extreme intention behind each design, as if to say: as much work went into this stuff, it’s also just clothes that you should wear — which is what both Ten C and Comoli are all about.
Their shared philosophy is literal, in the sense that many of the pieces are reversible, taking on new lives when inside becomes outside, and vice versa. Because clothes are never just one thing, even when they’re all black.
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