Tod's turns a Hankyu Umeda pop-up into an Italian autumn forest, with artisans on hand
Tod's is staging an 'Italian Autumn' pop-up at Hankyu Umeda's ground-floor Kotokoto Stage, with advance FW26 leather goods and three days of live artisan demonstrations — a slot that has become a revolving door for European accessories houses.
Hankyu Hanshin Department Stores said Tod's will open a pop-up called "Autunno Italiano" (Italian Autumn) on the first floor of Hankyu Umeda's main store, at Kotokoto Stage 11, running from 9 to 15 September.
The space is styled as a walk through an autumn forest in Italy's Marche region, with woodpeckers, fawns, foxes, rabbits and hedgehogs used as decorative markers through the collection, according to the department store. Advance pieces from the leather-goods maison's autumn-winter 2026 line go on sale at the pop-up, including a suede Bauletto bag mini at ¥333,300, a leather shopping bag mini at ¥300,300, a hair-calf mule loafer at ¥157,300, a leather-and-fabric sneaker at ¥141,900 and a shearling short jacket at ¥1,312,300, with some items exclusive to the event. Tod's craftspeople will also give live demonstrations in-store, limited to 11–13 September.
Kotokoto Stage 11, the exact ground-floor slot Tod's is using, has hosted a rotating cast of accessories-forward European houses this year alone, including Furla and Anya Hindmarch, on floortok's own tracking of the venue. For a leather-goods maison competing more on craft story than logo recognition, an artisan demonstration inside a department store is a cheap way to make "handmade in Italy" tangible, rather than just printed on a tag.