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Tabio vs fragment design: similarities and differences

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Tabio

Japan Founded 1968

Polished & dressy · Sporty & sportswear · Minimal & basics

fragment design

Japan Founded 2003

Streetwear · Minimal & basics · Trends & youth culture

Similarities and differences

Shared traits

  • Both brands show traits of Polished & dressy.
  • Both brands show traits of Minimal & basics.

Different traits

  • Streetwear

    fragment design shows a stronger emphasis

  • Avant-garde & designer

    fragment design shows a stronger emphasis

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Trait comparison

  • Tabio (solid line, circles)
  • fragment design (dashed line, squares)
Traits of Tabio and fragment design, shown relative to each brand.
How to read the chart

Traits farther from the centre are more prominent within each brand. The chart uses the same relative display as the brand profile. Area does not indicate brand quality or absolute differences between brands.

Traits by category

Bar lengths show how prominent each trait is within each brand.

  • Tabio
  • fragment design
Minimal & basics
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Polished & dressy
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Luxury & heritage
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Avant-garde & designer
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Decoration & playfulness
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Streetwear
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Trends & youth culture
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Sporty & sportswear
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Outdoor & functional
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Basic information

Field
Tabio
fragment design
Country Japan Japan
Founded 1968 2003
Category Clothing Clothing
Other categories Lifestyle products Textiles and material technology Accessories Footwear Lifestyle products

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Brand profiles

Brand lines

Tabio

  • Tabio MEN

    A men’s specialist line derived from Tabio. Conceived at the company’s founding as a men’s sock bran...

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  • TABIO SPORTS

    A sports-focused line derived from Tabio. It applies the quality and technology of a sock specialist...

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  • TABIO LEG LABO

    A functional legwear line derived from Tabio. Based on the concept “Beautiful feet without strain,” ...

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fragment design

  • FRGMTmini

    FRGMTmini is a line focused primarily on kidswear, launched as a spin-off of Hiroshi Fujiwara’s frag...

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Collaborations

Tabio

  • 2025-12-19

    TOGA

    The sixth TOGA × Tabio collaboration (socks). It features totem pole, wave, argyle, and sheer designs, among others. The advance release at TOGA is on 2025/12/19, and the release at Tabio is on 2025/12/20.

Tabio collaborations

fragment design

  • 2026-02-12

    Nike

    A recent example of a collaboration between fragment design (Hiroshi Fujiwara) and Nike. A limited collaboration incorporating FRAGMENT design into Devin Booker’s “Book 2” signature shoe is scheduled to launch in February 2026.

  • 2026-02-11

    Seiko

    A collaboration with fragment design, the “Metronome Watch Fragment Edition” was announced and released on 2026/02/11 as a special model with a metronome function.

  • 2025-11-08

    UNDERCOVER

    In November 2025, released a capsule collection with fragment design.

  • 2021-08-24

    sacai

    In 2021, LDWaffle sneakers were released in a three-way collaboration with Nike. They feature a double tongue and double Swoosh.

  • 2020-02

    Converse

    A triple collaboration launched alongside Moncler (around February 2020). The Chuck Taylor Low, fragment design’s first public release, featured hand-stitched-style panels and triple branding on the heel.

  • 2018-12-22

    #FR2

    To commemorate the opening of the #FR2 Okinawa store in December 2018, T-shirts and hoodies featuring logos and lightning motifs were released in collaboration with fragment design.

fragment design collaborations

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