Kwaidan Editions

The brand is rooted in Creative Director Léa Dickely’s personal experience of not recognising herself in traditional female stereotypes. Kwaidan Editions embodies the decision to leave these definitions behind, and instead explore what it looks and feels like for a woman to be truly unencumbered.

Established in 2017, Kwaidan Editions reinterprets ghosts of the past to express the uncanny present – the strange times we live in. Kwaidan Editions alludes to the eponymous occult film by Masaki Kobayashi (1965). By synthesizing disparate cultural references and unusual materials, Kwaidan Editions evokes the uncanny, supernatural atmosphere of the film.