LAPUIS — Five Years of “Crawl. Trace. Color.” and Made-in-Japan Jewellery from Tokyo

LAPUIS is the youngest of the five active in-house labels at Casselini Inc. — launched in 2021, the brand celebrated its 5th anniversary in 2026.

Two things distinguish LAPUIS inside the Casselini portfolio. The first is its language. Where sister label LE VERNIS condenses its brief into three English keywords, LAPUIS compresses its design philosophy into three Japanese verbs.

The second is where the pieces are made. LAPUIS is the only one of the five active in-house labels positioned around a Made-in-Japan production commitment — and that commitment is part of the design brief, not just a marketing line.

Start with the language, then we’ll get to the production.

這う。沿う。彩る。 “Crawl. Trace. Color.”

Read the verbs as a process. Crawl is the way ornament moves across a surface — slowly, contour-following, in contact with the material rather than imposed on top of it. Trace is the next step: the line follows a curve already present in the wearer or the garment. Color is the final intervention: pigment, finish, metal tone, applied with restraint so that the underlying form still leads.

The result is a register that doesn’t quite exist in English-language jewellery vocabulary. LAPUIS isn’t statement jewellery; it isn’t minimalism either. The label’s own description is precise: pieces that “live quietly inside the outfit and inside daily life.” Jewellery as part of the total styling, lifting both the clothes and the wearer.

Made in Japan

Every LAPUIS piece is made in Japan. The label runs domestic production — the choice is structural, not decorative.

For an overseas reader, Made in Japan on jewellery means three concrete things:

1. Finish at a level the price doesn’t always suggest. Japan’s domestic jewellery industry has spent decades supplying the country’s quiet-luxury market. The labor cost is high; the finish is correspondingly high. LAPUIS’s coil-and-curve vocabulary is unforgiving of poor finishing, which is part of why the brand can’t offshore the work without compromising the brief.

2. Tight feedback loops between design and production. “Crawl. Trace. Color.” is a process brief that depends on small iterations between the design studio and the workshop. Continents apart, the iteration cycle would stretch from days to weeks; pieces lose their precision. Domestic production keeps the iterations short.

3. A trust signal that crosses languages. Made in Japan on accessories carries documented value in the U.S., European and Chinese-speaking markets without requiring translation. For an overseas audience meeting LAPUIS for the first time, the provenance is itself part of the proposition.

The label doesn’t market the production line heavily on its Japanese site — the assumption is that a domestic customer takes it for granted. For an international audience, it’s worth saying out loud: every coil, every clasp, every finished surface is made in Japan.

The signature series

Two product lines anchor the label’s identity:

Connect Coil — a series built around continuous coiled forms, exploring how a single line of metal traces around the body. Earrings, neckpieces, bracelets in the same visual logic.

Coil around — a parallel investigation into wrapping: how the coil engages with another material (leather, fabric, stone) rather than acting alone. Used as a vehicle for collaborations with adjacent labels.

Both series have run continuously since the brand’s early years and form the spine of the catalogue. Seasonal capsules orbit them.

The 2026 anniversary moment

April 2026 carried unusual weight in LAPUIS’s calendar. The brand staged two parallel launches:

1. A POP-UP STORE at ROSE BUD featuring the SS26 collection — the standard seasonal premiere.

2. A 5th-anniversary Omotesando pop-up shared with sister bag label LE VERNIS — the more documented event, presenting both labels’ SS26 work side by side, plus a T-shirt collaboration with FRUIT OF THE LOOM that fused the FRUIT OF THE LOOM heritage with LAPUIS’s coil motifs.

The decision to pair the anniversary celebration with LE VERNIS rather than staging it alone signals how the two labels function inside the Casselini portfolio: paired by design intent, not just by floor plan at the Casselini Harajuku flagship. Where LE VERNIS works on the bag, LAPUIS works on the jewellery; together they cover the accessory wardrobe.

Why this label, for an overseas reader

The 2020s have produced a noticeable cohort of Japanese jewellery labels working in a “quiet but considered” register — pieces designed for daily wear, priced for accessibility, finished to a level that contradicts the price. LAPUIS sits inside that cohort but is unusually disciplined about its design vocabulary. The three-verb brief is not marketing language. It is a working constraint, visible in product after product.

Combine that with the Made-in-Japan production line, and LAPUIS becomes one of the cleaner starting points for readers building a wardrobe of Tokyo accessories that travel well outside the city. The pieces don’t shout “Tokyo”; they just survive being worn every day — anywhere.

Where to find it

• Online: casselini-online.com/lapuis
• Instagram: @lapuis_official
• Flagship: Casselini Harajuku — 〒150-0001 東京都渋谷区神宮前 5-27-8

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Press references

All Casselini press releases archived at PRTimes (Casselini company page). April 2026-onwards releases referenced in this piece:

• PRTimes 177342-13 — LE VERNIS / LAPUIS Omotesando 5th-anniversary pop-up (April 2026)
• PRTimes 177342-12 — LAPUIS ROSE BUD pop-up, SS26 collection (April 2026)
• PRTimes 177342-5 — LAPUIS × FRUIT OF THE LOOM 5th-anniversary tee (April 2026)
• PRTimes 177342-18 — LAPUIS at Kinetics WOMEN Jiyugaoka pop-up (April-May 2026)

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