For IM MEN’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, titled Dancing Texture, Issey Miyake Eyes introduces UROKO, a model that feels more like an experimental object than a simple accessory. It’s not just a matter of design, but of structure, surface, and material memory.

The starting point is the work of Shoji Kamoda, a Japanese ceramicist known for surfaces marked by patterns that resemble overlapping scales. UROKO translates that three-dimensional research into a complex optical system: eight lenses distributed along the frame—four per side—arranged in sequence like a visual rhythm that echoes Kamoda’s organic geometries. Each lens features a concave cut designed to fit a compact structure, in a millimetric balance between form and function.

The frame isn’t a mere support. Its surface is textured but not uniform, treated so that each piece shows slight variations. This is where the project fully breaks away from the idea of a serial product: light hits the material differently on every pair, creating depth and unexpected vibrations. No two pairs are identical.

The result is a hybrid that looks like it came out of a ceramics studio, yet is made through 3D printing and Japanese manufacturing of the highest precision. A complex form, a detailed surface, and micro-differences that make each pair of glasses an almost sculptural object.

With UROKO, Issey Miyake’s legacy keeps moving in the direction that has always defined its language: technology as a tool to explore material, not to simplify it. Here, texture isn’t decoration—it’s structure. And the future, once again, passes through the hands of craftsmanship.

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