Act I · The Question
What if a car
could be dressed?
Dressed - the way a couturier dresses a body. With textile, with patience, with the understanding that surface carries meaning.
Kinsō begins in Kyoto, in the workshops of Nishijin-ori - the silk-weaving district where jacquard looms have produced botanical textiles for over five centuries. Every petal, every leaf, not printed but woven.
This is the tradition HOF chose as its starting point. Because decoration, when it is structural, is no longer decoration. It is language.
The loom - where thread becomes language. Nishijin-ori, Kyoto.
Act II · The Material
Botanical jacquard.
Not printed. Woven.
The textile at the heart of Kinsō is a structure - a botanical jacquard where every motif is constructed thread by thread. Flora drawn from Edo-period botanical illustration, translated into a weave dense enough to upholster an interior, refined enough to line a couture jacket.
Aizome Blue takes its name from aizome, the Japanese tradition of fermented indigo. A blue that remembers the plant it came from.
Kinari Crème borrows the Japanese term for raw, unbleached silk - the warmth that carries the lower body and the front of the cabin.
Silk Gold runs through the composition as accent - woven into the jacquard, embroidered into leather, ringed around the wheels. Not yellow. Lit from within.
Aizome - the blue that carries memory. Fermented indigo, Tokushima.
Act II · The Palette
Three tones,
one composition.
Every HOF composition begins with a dialogue. For Kinsō, three tones are held in conversation.
Aizome Blue above the beltline. Kinari Crème below. Silk Gold drawn through the body as the accent that connects them - and rings the wheels in the same warmth that runs through the cabin.
The logic is borrowed from fashion, where contrast creates conversation. The way a crème trouser, an indigo blouse and a thread of gold can together form a single look.
HOF G · V - Kinsō · Aizome Blue · Kinari Crème · Silk Gold · Side Profile.
Act III · A monolithic canvas
Before we dress,
we prepare the canvas.
The starting point of Kinsō's exterior is the cubic silhouette of the G-Class - and HOF's reading is to clarify it. The traditional side protection strips are laser-cut from the bodywork; each panel is closed seamlessly by hand. Manual, time-intensive, carried out at the atelier - every cut, every weld, every finish placed by the same hands. What remains is a monolithic body: a single uninterrupted plane, the purest canvas the season's composition can be carried by.
HOF G · V - Kinsō · Rear · The cleaned silhouette, carried through.
Act III · The Permanent Framework
A body that
carries the season.
The bespoke HOF bodyparts on Kinsō debut the maison's permanent G design language - presented here for the first time, and forming the basis for every HOF collection to follow.
The brief was clear: a body that could carry a different composition every season, without ever overpowering it. HOF front grille, redrawn bumpers, wheel-arch extensions, electric running boards with integrated exhaust outlets - all in high-grade carbon, produced exclusively by the maison.
Kinsō is presented in the Luxurious variant - restrained, in the spirit of quiet luxury, with a dedicated wheel and grille combination. The seasonal change does not happen in the metal. It happens in the colours, fabrics, leathers and finishes drawn from outside the automotive vocabulary.
HOF G · V - Kinsō · From above · The composition, complete.
"We don't configure cars. We compose them."
Act III · A room you enter
Two atmospheres,
one cabin.
Coach Doors are one of HOF's signature gestures, reserved for compositions where the cabin asks to be entered, not stepped into. When they open, the interior reveals itself as two atmospheres held in a single body: Kinari Crème runs the front, Aizome Blue the rear - the eye carried forward through the cabin, from the warmth of the rear into the brighter passage at the front. The logic is borrowed directly from fashion.
Act III · The Wardrobe
Carried from the cabin
into the world.
Every HOF season is anchored by a vehicle and extended through accessories - pieces conceived the way a fashion house conceives the components of a look. The bag that completes the dress, the scarf that finishes the coat.
The Kinsō wardrobe carries the same botanical jacquard, the same Aizome Blue, the same Kinari Crème and the same Silk Gold as the vehicle. Intended to be worn together. Available as a coordinated set, or as individual pieces.
Kintsugi - gold as celebration. Every fracture made beautiful.
Epilogue
Kinsō.
金装 - the Japanese word for adornment. The discipline of making every visible thing carry invisible meaning. Surface as language - where what covers a thing tells you what lives inside it.
Botanical jacquard on the loom. Aizome from fermentation tanks in Tokushima. Kinari Crème from raw, unbleached silk. Silk Gold from nature's first light. Coach Doors that open like the entrance to a private room. An interior that is a room. Accessories that carry the same textile from the cabin into the world.
"Curated, Not Made."
Design & Details · Exterior
- Three-tone satin composition - Aizome Blue above the beltline, Kinari Crème below, Silk Gold drawn through the body as accent.
- Cleaned bodywork - G-Class side protection strips laser-cut from the panel, the silhouette returned to a single uninterrupted plane.
- Coach Doors - engineered through HOF's proprietary dual-hinge process, integrated into the bodyshell at factory standards.
- HOF G design language - Luxurious variant, paired with the dedicated wheel and grille set.
- 24-inch HOF Disc Wheels in white, ringed in Silk Gold.
- Bespoke HOF bodyparts in high-grade carbon. Exposed-carbon finish optional by collection.
Design & Details · Interior
- Two-atmosphere cabin - Kinari Crème in the front, Aizome Blue in the rear. Two rooms held in one body.
- Individual rear seating replaces the bench - each seat opened to its own material treatment.
- Botanical jacquard inserts on seats, door panels and headliner, drawn from the Nishijin-ori tradition.
- Vegetable-tanned leather, selected for patina.
- Hand-placed botanical embroidery, visible only on close inspection.
- The recurring H-pattern - embossed in leather, woven into textile, etched into metal.
Meet the Designer
Begin your composition.
Kinsō is available for order from 17 May 2026, with first deliveries from autumn 2026. Production is limited to the slots of the Spring Summer 2027 collection - when those slots are filled, Kinsō is sold out for the season. Each composition is completed by hand at Atelier HOF, Sindelfingen.
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