Jacques Marie Mage channels Shūji Terayama’s radical vision
The Los Angeles eyewear house draws inspiration from the visionary Japanese filmmaker and cultural provocateur for its new Kyosho collection, arriving November 2026.
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Jacques Marie Mage draws from the transgressive cinema and experimental theatre of Shūji Terayama for Kyosho, a collection born from the restless imagination of a filmmaker who spent his career dismantling the boundaries between art and life. Terayama, a visionary poet, playwright and cultural provocateur whose work redefined Japan’s postwar avant garde, moved fluidly between literature, theatre, cinema and photography, creating a body of work that rejected established divisions between high and everyday existence.
The collection takes its name and spirit from Terayama’s 1974 film Butterfly Dress Pledge (Chōfuku ki), a surreal twelve minute meditation on excess and fragility. Shot through with the grainy luminescence of experimental cinema, the film follows a chaotic hangover following a rule breaking party staged by performers from Terayama’s radical experimental theatre collective, Tenjō Sajiki. Within its dreamlike sequences, the work explores voyeurism, sensual indulgence and the gossamer line between beauty and destruction, themes that Jacques Marie Mage has woven into a collection for those equally unafraid of spectacle and provocation.
The Kyosho collection becomes available November 11, 2026 at JMM Galleries, Jacques Marie Mage’s own retail spaces, the brand’s website, and select partners worldwide. Each piece carries forward Terayama’s legacy of fearless creative invention, honouring a figure whose experimental, multidisciplinary approach continues to influence artists and filmmakers across generations.
Imagery courtesy of Jacques Marie Mage (@jacquesmariemage).
