--- title: "Junko Shimada’s painted Japan" description: "Pines, branches, daisies and stripes: Junko Shimada brings Hiroshige’s Japan to Paris for spring/summer 2027." url: https://neomaniamagazine.com/junko-shimadas-painted-japan/ date: 2026-10-09 modified: 2026-11-13 author: "Neo" image: https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-7-1280px.webp categories: ["Fashion"] tags: ["Cyprien Chabert", "Junko Shimada", "SS 2027"] type: post lang: en --- # Junko Shimada’s painted Japan **A plum tree, a pine, a shower of leaves. [Junko Shimada](http://www.junkoshimada.com/) brings Hiroshige’s landscapes to Paris in her spring/summer 2027 collection, the 91st from her house, with prints painted by the French artist Cyprien Chabert. A collection in which Japan and Paris meet on linen, silk and jersey.** A plum tree in blossom at Kameido. The Moon Pine at Ueno. These are landscapes that Utagawa Hiroshige captured in Edo-period Japan, and they are also the starting point for **Junko Shimada**’s spring/summer 2027 collection. Today, those landscapes travel to Paris, transformed into prints on linen and jersey. This is the 91st season for a house that Shimada founded in 1982, sixteen years after arriving in Paris without a word of French. From the city she chose, the designer turns her gaze back towards her homeland, and she does so at Paris Fashion Week with a presentation in which tradition and modernity go hand in hand. ![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 14](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-14.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 13](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-13.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 12](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-12.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 11](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-11.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 10](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-10.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 9](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-9.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 8](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-8.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 7](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-7.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 6](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-6.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 5](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-5.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 4](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-4.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 3](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-3.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 2](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-2.webp)![junko shimada ww ss 2027 presentation 1](https://neomaniamagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/junko-shimada-ww-ss-2027-presentation-1.webp) From Hiroshige’s ukiyo-e, **Shimada** takes the composition, the humour and the delicacy. To translate them, she has once again called on the French artist **Cyprien Chabert**, who had already drawn the Garden of Eden for her spring/summer 2020 collection, and who has painted three works inspired by the way Hiroshige depicts nature and plants. Those paintings have become prints: fragments of Japanese landscape brought into the contemporary wardrobe. On the clothes, landscape becomes garment. A wide-sleeved jacket bears a pine with a brown trunk and green crown on a white ground, paired with a long, floaty lilac skirt down which willow-like leaves cascade to a green hem. Dark branches trace a kimono-inspired jacket and a bandeau top that fades from pink to ecru, and reappear on long skirts that shift from pink to white. The rest of the wardrobe plays with daisies, stripes and blue. White daisies on navy dress a silk frock with a pussy-bow collar and a set made up of a hooded sweatshirt and a long, full skirt. Blue and white stripes glide across a silk shirt and trousers cinched with a knotted belt, and flare out in the pleated flounce of a shirt dress. And blue unfolds in navy dungaree cloth, in light denim with white zigzag embroidery and in a long coat of silk, linen and wool. Navy, electric blue, sky blue, white, ecru, lilac, pink and leaf green make up a luminous summer palette. The silhouettes are ample and fluid: long skirts, wide-leg trousers, generous sleeves and, at ground level, espadrilles and ankle-tie sandals. The woman **Junko Shimada** dreams of for next summer is the one she has always dressed: elegant and contemporary, wearing simple, easy-to-wear pieces with a sober aesthetic and fine details. The plum tree of Kameido, the pine of Ueno: Edo-period Japan turned into summer clothes by a Japanese woman who has lived in Paris for sixty years. Two shores, Japan and Paris, stitched together once again in a single garment.