SHARE SPIRIT at BORDEAUX
SHARE SPIRIT
Hikaru Katano / Japan
SHARE SPIRIT is a Japanese fashion label by Hikaru Katano.
Since its beginning in 2000, Katano has turned what he has seen, touched and experienced into original prints, fabrics and garments.
BORDEAUX has presented SHARE SPIRIT since 2004.
At BORDEAUX — Since 2004
Shortly before we began carrying the label, we encountered SHARE SPIRIT in Milan. We still remember seeing its clothes given a prominent place in the windows of boutiques around the city.
Later, in Paris, we began seeing the collections at Tranoï and Showroom Romeo. Buyers from many countries came through Showroom Romeo, where we also saw Katano meet buyers himself and speak with them directly about the clothes.
For several years afterwards, whenever SHARE SPIRIT presented its collection in Paris during the womenswear season, we returned to Showroom Romeo.
We watched a Japanese label move from person to person, finding its way into stores and cities across Europe.
Colour, fabric, print, detail and silhouette. In SHARE SPIRIT, each has its own strength, yet they come together as a single garment.
The prints in particular can feel less like patterns than images in themselves. Colour, the surface of the fabric and composition work together, giving a garment one expression when it hangs still and another when it moves on the body.
A single season can contain many pieces strong enough to stand on their own. Together, they form a collection.
Depending on the material and treatment, colour and surface can continue to change through wear, gradually settling into the body and taking on a character different from when the garment was new. Some pieces made more than twenty years ago are still being worn, while others are now sought out as vintage by a younger generation.
Around the same period, we began spending more time with Katano in Paris.
We visited markets and museums, listened to music and walked through the city. We spent time in cafés, shared meals and, at times, travelled on to London and Berlin.
We returned to Clignancourt many times. A collector himself, Katano would spend time looking through old objects, often leaving with several pieces that had caught his eye.
One of the places we returned to was Pierre Bazalgues’ cabinet de curiosités at Marché Paul Bert. Medical specimens, religious objects, skeletons and old objects were brought together with a sensibility entirely his own.
In Japan, we also visited the shop in Hachiyamacho, Tokyo, many times. Objects Katano has collected over the years are placed throughout the space alongside the clothes.
Today, Katano himself also spends time in the shop, welcoming visitors and speaking with them directly about the clothes.
What we saw over those years was not only the finished collections. An idea became a design. Fabrics and prints emerged. Eventually, it became a garment.
For many years, the shape of SHARE SPIRIT has also been formed through the work of pattern maker Shoko. She worked with Katano before SHARE SPIRIT and has continued to make the patterns for the label throughout its history.
Her work gives physical form to Katano’s ideas. It shapes not only the silhouette, but also how the clothes feel on the body.
Katano lived in London when he was young and has continued to travel through many parts of the world.
What he encounters while travelling or moving through markets does not simply reappear in the clothes. One object can lead to its history, another culture, a piece of music or a memory. These associations pass through Katano and emerge transformed — as colour, fabric, print and detail.
By the time they reach the clothes, their original forms are rarely recognisable. Yet the accumulation of those experiences remains present throughout SHARE SPIRIT. The gas-mask leather jacket that grew out of his experience at Burning Man is one example.
Yet Katano’s attention always seems to be directed towards what comes next.
While earlier pieces are being rediscovered by a younger generation, SHARE SPIRIT continues to change in the present. The way the clothes relate to the body continues to shift, as do their feel and silhouette. New fabrics and materials are also introduced in response to a changing climate.
New ideas continue to enter the work, yet once the clothes are finished, they are still recognisably SHARE SPIRIT.
Even after following the work for so long, a new collection can still reveal a side of Katano we have not seen before.
It carries its past without remaining in it.
That is why BORDEAUX continues to follow and present SHARE SPIRIT today.
Much of the more than twenty years between BORDEAUX and SHARE SPIRIT was never recorded online.
Conversations in Paris, scenes from Showroom Romeo, time spent walking through Clignancourt, the Tokyo shop, and the words exchanged in front of each new collection.
This is not a complete history of SHARE SPIRIT.
It is a record from BORDEAUX, which has presented the clothes and continued to follow Hikaru Katano’s work since 2004.
Text: ZENJUN / BORDEAUX
Order Exhibition
At BORDEAUX, we hold SHARE SPIRIT Order Exhibitions each season.
We value the time to encounter each new collection directly — to handle the garments, feel the materials, try them on and choose through your own sense of what feels right.
When Hikaru Katano is present, visitors can also hear directly from him about the background and making of the clothes.
Recent Order Exhibitions
SHARE SPIRIT — 2026 Autumn Winter
May 23–24, 2026
SHARE SPIRIT — 2026 Spring Summer
December 13–14, 2025
SHARE SPIRIT — 2025 Autumn Winter
May 10–11, 2025
SHARE SPIRIT — 2025 Spring Summer
December 7–8, 2024