Harucette: Colour, Wearing the Soul of Craft
Harucette is a London-based Japanese couture house reimagining vintage kimono silk into contemporary dresses and jackets, with a focus on rare 100% silk textiles sourced from Amami Oshima, Kyoto, and Tokyo. Each piece begins with cloth that already carries a life, a season, and a lineage, then is re-cut and re-shaped into silhouettes designed for modern movement and modern lives.
In the brand’s own manifesto,
Harucette describes its process with quiet certainty: “Color is our architecture. Dye is our alchemy.” Fabric here is never a surface detail. It is the starting point, the structure, and the story. Rooted in Japan’s centuries-old dyeing traditions and the philosophy of iro (色), Harucette treats colour as something living, shaped by climate, time, and artisan hands. The result is a wardrobe built on unrepeatable hues and nuanced finishes, where delicacy and strength sit side by side.
That reverence is personal for founder and creative director Haruno Hiroshima. Her grandmother wove Oshima Tsumugi, one of Japan’s most prestigious and technically demanding silks, and that heritage sits at the heart of Harucette’s direction. Rather than keeping tradition in stillness, the label brings it forward, turning kimono silk into garments that feel contemporary without losing their cultural weight.
Harucette’s goal
is as much preservation as it is design: to protect disappearing Japanese craftsmanship by placing it in a modern, global context. With an eye on high-end clients in London who value culture and artisanal quality, the brand positions kimono silk as true international luxury, not nostalgia, but living artistry, worn now.