Saint Mxxxxxx Sends Betty Boop to War With Herself for the Fourth Fall Drop, Then Ups On In Blackmeans, Retaw and Disney

The August 8 release pairs a devil and an angel version of Betty Boop with a first ever Blackmeans tie up, a debut Retaw scent and a Dumbo and Fantasia focused Disney lineup.

Saint Mxxxxxx will put out its fourth 2026 fall and winter delivery on August 8, and the lineup reads like a designer clearing out a very specific corner of pop culture: a cartoon flapper from the 1930s, a leather workshop from Gifu prefecture, a fragrance house from Aoyama, and two Disney titles that turn 85 and 100 within a few years of each other. None of it is new territory for the label. What is new is how much weight this particular drop puts on collaboration, five partners across roughly twenty pieces, with the brand’s own line filling in the rest.

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The centerpiece is a second run with Betty Boop, following a first collaboration last year that designer Yuta Hosokawa and artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt say drew a strong response. This time the character splits into two: one tee prints her as a devil, the other as an angel, both drawn fresh for the brand rather than lifted from archive art. The vintage tint that defines every Saint Mxxxxxx graphic is still there, applied heavily enough that the print looks like it has already survived a few decades of washing. Both styles come on a white body, sized S through XXL, priced at 42,900 yen each.

A vintage Betty Boop T-shirt highlights its original licensed copyright print and miniature character artwork, while the larger Betty Boop graphic peeks from behind, emphasizing authentic archival detailing and soft cotton construction.

 

Betty Boop herself dates back to Fleischer Studios’ 1930 debut, and the character’s trademark now sits with King Features Syndicate, which is why the small trademark symbol follows her name on every hangtag and label copy in this release. It is a detail Saint Mxxxxxx has been careful about since the first drop, and it stays consistent here.

What made the first Betty Boop release land, by the brand’s own account, had less to do with the character’s name recognition and more to do with how Hosokawa treats her: as raw material for the same aging process every other graphic in the Saint Mxxxxxx catalog goes through, whether the source is a 1930s cartoon or a Toy Story poster. The devil and angel framing this time adds a small narrative wrinkle on top of that process, splitting one character into two competing identities on the same rack rather than asking a single print to carry the whole idea again. It is a modest addition, but it is the kind of addition that keeps a second run from reading as a straight repeat of a design that already sold once.

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Blackmeans has been making leather goods in Japan since 2008, built by Yujiro Komatsu and a small team around a punk and motorcycle sensible that has made the label a cult name well outside Japan, including a run of collaborations with brands like Alyx. This is its first project with Saint Mxxxxxx, and it leans on Blackmeans’ own signatures rather than asking the brand to imitate someone else’s house style.

A vintage black leather motorcycle jacket features an asymmetrical zip closure, quilted shoulder panels, brass hardware, multiple utility pockets, adjustable waist buckles, and a well-worn patina that reflects classic biker craftsmanship.

 

The capsule includes two graphic tees, one reading “Saint Means” and priced at 46,200 yen, the other a “Peace” design at 41,800 yen, both worked over with the anarchy symbolism the Saint Mxxxxxx design team gravitates toward. Beyond the shirts, the release pulls in three of Blackmeans’ own signature accessory shapes: a cross patterned coin case at 40,700 yen, a bandana made using the same vintage dyeing process Blackmeans applies to its own goods at 7,150 yen, and a hand dyed cotton tenugui carrying Blackmeans’ peace mark motif at 10,450 yen, produced at a factory that still uses traditional dye techniques.

Founder Yujiro Komatsu has described Blackmeans’ whole approach as an obsession with process over trend, a leather house that would rather hand cut, hand stud and hand distress a single jacket over days than shortcut its way to a faster production run. That obsession is part of why the label built a following among people who know leather closely enough to notice the difference, and it is also why a first Saint Mxxxxxx collaboration took until 2026 to happen at all: putting two brands together that are both this particular about aging and wear only works if neither one waters down what made them recognizable in the first place. The coin case, bandana and tenugui in this release are not new shapes invented for the tie in. They are Blackmeans’ own long running accessory line, run through Saint Mxxxxxx’s graphic language instead of the other way around.

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Retaw, the Aoyama based fragrance label founded in 2009 by Hiroshi Fujiwara and Daisuke Murakami, gets its first Saint Mxxxxxx collaboration in the form of a single fragrance car tag priced at 4,400 yen. The scent is built around patchouli, described as a favorite of the Saint Mxxxxxx design team, and the back of the tag carries the word “Proust,” a nod to the idea that a smell can pull up a specific memory faster than almost anything else can.

The retaW Aoyama fragrance tag combines minimalist Japanese packaging with a gold diamond-shaped scented card, designed to freshen cars, closets, or personal spaces while reflecting the brand’s understated aesthetic.

 

It is a small object next to the shirts and jackets around it, but Retaw has made a habit of this kind of pointed, single item collaboration, having done similar car tag and diffuser work with Fragment Design and a handful of other partners over the years rather than building out full product lines for every tie in. The label’s name is itself a small piece of wordplay, the word “water” spelled backward, chosen by Fujiwara and Murakami as a way of signaling that a fragrance should be as ordinary and unremarkable a part of daily life as water is, rather than something saved for a special occasion.

That know shows up in how selective Retaw is about who it works with. In past interviews, the label has said it turns down more collaboration requests than it accepts, preferring to wait for a partner or a concept that means something specific rather than adding another logo to a crowded field. The patchouli note chosen for this release, paired with the Proust reference on the tag, fits that pattern: a scent picked because it is one the Saint Mxxxxxx team actually wears, tied to a concept about memory that gives the connection a reason to exist beyond two names sharing a hangtag.

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Saint Mxxxxxx’s Disney collection has become close to a standing fixture of the brand’s seasonal drops, and this time it splits across two classic titles. The Dumbo pieces take the 1941 film’s flying elephant and print him across the chest in a faded, film grain style meant to echo how the movie actually looked on release, with lettering on the back drawn from the original title card. It comes in one short sleeve tee, white body, S through XXL, at 34,100 yen.

 

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Fantasia gets more real estate. The August 8 rollout includes a white short sleeve tee at 36,300 yen showing Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the segment most people associate with the film even if they have never seen the rest of it, again rendered with a scratched, film reel texture. Saint Mxxxxxx says the Fantasia side of the release will run to four styles total, with a black bodied long sleeve tee following on September 19 at 58,300 yen, built off a vintage tee pattern with the film’s release year printed on the back. Two more pieces, a short sleeve tee and a crewneck sweatshirt, both called “Magic” and both carrying a glitter print meant to catch the light the way an on screen spell would, are confirmed for the collection but do not yet have release dates; they are priced at 58,300 yen and 94,600 yen respectively.

A vintage Sorcerer Mickey illustration is rendered with rough sketch lines and textured crayon-style shading, reimagining the classic Disney character in a nostalgic hand-drawn aesthetic inspired by traditional animation concept art.

 

The Disney partnership has become one of the more reliable threads running through Saint Mxxxxxx’s yearly calendar. The brand’s own site has pointed back to a Fantasia capsule released in January of this year, timed to the film’s 85th anniversary, and the label has run Toy Story and Child’s Play items through its regular Japan retail network as recently as July. Layering Dumbo, a film pushing toward its own 85th anniversary in 2026, on top of another Fantasia release in the same season is less a coincidence than a sign of how much room the brand sees in Disney’s earliest animated catalog specifically, rather than newer franchises. Both films predate the studio’s shift into a more polished house style, and the rougher, more painterly frames from that era give Saint Mxxxxxx’s aging process more to work with than a glossier modern print would.

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Away from the collides, Saint Mxxxxxx’s own line rounds out the drop with five graphic tees (Love Sick at 44,000 yen, Saint Love at 39,600 yen, WOW at 39,600 yen, and The Saint at 29,700 yen), two black denim cuts in straight and flare at 41,800 yen each, and a hand assembled leather belt at 91,300 yen with an in house buckle.

The brand’s own tees carry the same distressed, vintage finishing process across every collaboration this season.

The more unusual object in the release is a folding box priced at 16,500 yen, built around a postmodern design brief and available in seven colors mixing animal print and geometric pattern. A separate stainless steel board, also 16,500 yen, sits on top of it and turns the box into either a stool or a low table, which puts a piece of furniture in a lineup that otherwise runs entirely on fabric.

It is a small but telling addition. Hosokawa’s other label, Readymade, has built part of its identity on objects that sit outside conventional apparel, including furniture made from recycled materials, and the folding box reads like that instinct crossing over into Saint Mxxxxxx’s own line rather than staying confined to the sister brand. Whether it becomes a recurring category or a one season experiment is not something either brand has said yet, but it is a rare instance in this drop of an item that has nothing to do with a graphic print, a licensed character or a partner label, just a shape the design team wanted to make.

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Saint Mxxxxxx launched in 2020 as a joint project between Hosokawa, who built his name on the recycled materials label Readymade, and DeWitt, the Los Angeles based artist known for the merchandise he designed for Kanye West’s Life of Pablo tour. The two met through mutual friends around 2019 and started the label with what Hosokawa has described as not much of a plan beyond wanting to make something together built on a shared interest in vintage clothing and hand craft. Six years and dozens of collide later, from Sorayama to A Bathing Ape to Toy Story, the pattern has held: real fabric aging, screen printing done to look decades older than it is, and a partner list that swings between music, film and Japanese craft labels without much concern for whether they belong in the same sentence.

All items in the August 8 drop will be available at Saint Mxxxxxx’s regular Japan retail partners, both online and in store, with the usual staggered opening times between web and physical locations.