KENZO The Icons Boke Flower Shirt
Boke Flower Shirt
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Boke Flower Shirt

The Boke Flower carried onto a clean cotton shirt — the house crest in a tailored register.

$350 at KENZO

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Story & heritage

The Boke Flower shirt translates Nigo's signature motif — the Japanese flowering quince he made KENZO's central graphic in 2021 — onto a clean, classically cut cotton shirt. Where the sweatshirt is casual, the shirt places the same crest in a tailored register, extending the Boke Flower from streetwear into the everyday wardrobe.

It belongs to the same family as the Boke sweatshirt and cap, and is one of the pieces through which the flower became a complete house code rather than a single graphic.

Materials & craft

Cut from cotton — poplin, oxford or seersucker depending on the season — in a relaxed, boxy fit, the shirt carries the Boke Flower as a small embroidered crest at the chest, in red against a plain ground. The construction is deliberately simple: a clean collar, mother-of-pearl-style buttons and the KENZO Paris tab, letting the single embroidered flower be the only decoration.

cotton poplin / oxford / seersuckerembroidered Boke Flower crestrelaxed boxy fitshort or long sleeveminimal hardware

How to choose & style

White is the cleanest and most versatile — worn open over a tee or buttoned with tailoring, the red crest the single point of colour. The short-sleeve seersucker and oxford versions lean summer and casual; the long-sleeve poplin dresses up. As the most restrained way to wear the Boke Flower, it is the piece for those who want the house code without the volume of the sweatshirt.

whiteshort sleevelong sleeveseersuckeroxford
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