Onitsuka Tiger Autumn-Winter 2026 Makes Room for Texture Play

At Milan Fashion Week, Niana Guerrero previews Onitsuka Tiger’s latest collection, where opposites are stacked into silhouettes and layers.

In her first fashion week appearance, Niana Guerrero shares her excitement through what she knows best: dancing. Along the Darsena canal by Via Vigevano, the 20-year-old dances to “You Rock My World” by Michael Jackson in an Onitsuka Tiger ensemble of a red striped top, gray jacket, black trousers and shoes, along with a rectangular studded crossbody.

“I love the thrill of it,” she says, sharing her first impressions of Milan Fashion Week, away from TV screens and social media, but in real life, up close, in the room, where creative director Andrea Pompilio’s vision takes shape.

By the time she arrives at the venue, she’s caught off guard, in the best way, by how strongly the Filipino community was in attendance as well, lined up in the street. “I didn’t realize there’d be a lot of them,” she recalls. “Thanks to [them], I felt very much like a main character.”

For Autumn-Winter 2026, Onitsuka Tiger anchors the collection on “Ma,” a Japanese cultural concept often described as the active space between elements, whether in time or in form. In Pompilio’s presentation, it becomes a way of dressing: negative space isn’t emptiness, but a participant, shaping balance and tension through styling, proportion, and layered contrasts.

Inside Via Vigevano 18, Guerrero joins Heart Evangelista as Philippine representatives. In attendance as well are HONG EUNCHAE of LE SSERAFIM, Thai actor Nani Hirunkit Changkham, Indian actress Sreeleela, Indonesian singer Raisa Andriana, and Chinese actor Xia Zhiguang, as they watch the 49-piece collection lean into that mood. The set is restrained: beams overhead, roving robots filming like camera operators, while models walk through a meditative voiceover that gradually transitions to electronic beats.

The show opens in gray: a blazer layered over a brown checked shirt, and a pleated skirt, styled with the MEXICO 66™ sneaker-like heels, embodying the Onitsuka Tiger signature stripes . From there, the collection moves in echoes with motifs that reappear and then evolve. The Winter Heaven-like boots in off-white print return as oversized outerwear in the same graphic language. Embroidered florals in palettes of red, green, and dark rose on fleece shift into mauve suit sets. Muted tones build the base, then give way to louder moments: patterns and accessories in orange, pink, and yellow.

Pastels and earth tones thread through the lineup, softened with ruffles, ribbons, and brocade touches in an array of formalwear, casualwear, workwear, and sportswear, blending into combinations that feel both deliberate and surprising. Outerwear comes in a lineup of duffle coats rendered in leather and wool; fleece jackets appear in multiple colors and prints, reinforcing the collection’s texture-forward motif.

Footwear punctuates the story with equal range. Beyond the Winter Heaven-like boot variations, looks are finished with lace-up heels in lizard prints and florals, MEXICO 66™ sneaker-like heels in yellow, black, and white for women, and the debut of the MEXICO 66™ SQUARE model, offering a slim, flat-focused new take on the MEXICO 66™, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Onitsuka Tiger Stripes featured on the signature shoe.

“In a heartbeat, I’d wear the laced-up heels,” says Niana. She sums up the experience: “If I can have all of them, I’d be so happy!”

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