Jun Takahashi can’t get enough of the soft, squeezable works of the French plush artist Anne-Valérie Dupond. He’s been dazzled for years by her stuffed creations, which include internal organs, humans and animals with Frankenstein-style stitching and an equally sinister edge.

The designer’s kooky lineup was a follow-on from the women’s fall 2025 outing, and a tribute to his fall 2004 — “but beautiful…part parasitic, part stuffed” collection.

In 2004, Takahashi stepped into the toymaker’s shoes, imagining what singer Patti Smith would look like wearing clothes resembling Dupond’s stuffed animals. The artist’s jarring work dovetails with the designer’s obsession with beauty in imperfection.

In this latest collection, he doubled down on the wrinkles, with a distorted black tuxedo jacket a

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