# Mame Kurogouchi

> Mame Kurogouchi is a ready-to-wear label based in Tokyo, Japan, started in 2010. Behind the label: Maiko Kurogouchi. Known for womenswear drawn from memory and nature, made with Japanese craft workshops.

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- Facts checked: 2026-10-22
- Author: Kaiser Khan (Founder & Editor)

## Quick facts

- Behind the label: Maiko Kurogouchi
- Based: Tokyo, Japan
- Since: 2010
- Focus: Ready-to-wear
- Makes: Womenswear, plus the Mame Kurogouchi Basics line
- Trained: Bunka Fashion College; three years working with Issey Miyake
- Official site: https://www.mamekurogouchi.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamekurogouchi/

## Who is behind Mame Kurogouchi?

Maiko Kurogouchi, born in Nagano in 1985, studied at Bunka Fashion College and spent three years working with Issey Miyake before founding her company in 2010. She showed at Tokyo Fashion Week from Spring/Summer 2011 and first presented in Paris in 2018. The Kyoto Costume Institute holds a dress from that season, Autumn/Winter 2018, whose plant motifs were woven, dyed and embroidered by specialist workshops in Hokuriku, Kyoto and Kiryu. In 2021 the Nagano Prefectural Art Museum marked the label’s tenth anniversary with an exhibition, and in 2023 it opened its first flagship, in Aoyama. Mame Kurogouchi showed on the official Paris womenswear calendar every season from FW24 to SS27.

## Timeline

- 2010: Maiko Kurogouchi founds Kurogouchi Design Office. (source: https://www.mamekurogouchi.com/pages/about)
- 2018: Presents a collection in Paris for the first time. (source: https://www.mamekurogouchi.com/pages/about)
- September 2020: Opens the digital SS21 Paris Fashion Week with a film shot in Nagano. (source: https://us.fashionnetwork.com/news/Paris-fashion-week-opens-virtually-with-calendar-debuts,1247128.html)
- 2021: The Nagano Prefectural Art Museum holds the tenth-anniversary exhibition “10 Mame Kurogouchi”. (source: https://www.mamekurogouchi.com/pages/about)
- 29 September 2026: Shows SS27 on the official Paris womenswear calendar. (source: https://www.fhcm.paris/en/upcoming-seasons-and-previous-editions)

## Sources

- [FHCM — Mame Kurogouchi house page](https://www.fhcm.paris/en/house/mame-kurogouchi) — checked 2026-10-22
- [Mame Kurogouchi — About (official site)](https://www.mamekurogouchi.com/pages/about) — checked 2026-10-22
- [Pen — Mame Kurogouchi profile (2019)](https://pen-online.com/culture/mame-kurogouchi-the-japanese-brand-blending-craftsmanship-and-technical-design/) — checked 2026-10-22
- [FashionNetwork — Paris Fashion Week opens virtually (29 September 2020)](https://us.fashionnetwork.com/news/Paris-fashion-week-opens-virtually-with-calendar-debuts,1247128.html) — checked 2026-10-22
- [Kyoto Costume Institute — Mame Kurogouchi dress, Autumn/Winter 2018](https://www.kci.or.jp/en/archives/digital_archives/2010s/KCI_389) — checked 2026-10-22
- [FHCM — official calendars, FW24 to SS27](https://www.fhcm.paris/en/upcoming-seasons-and-previous-editions) — checked 2026-10-22