.Shinya Kozuka recognizes exactly how to specify a setting. In the past 2 seasons he is actually treated our team to a full moon as well as a pool in the pouring rain, and also this evening he erected his runway in a big makeshift cage outside Tokyo's National Stadium, to make sure that the noise of cicadas chirruping in the plants filled up the evening sky. The series noticeable one decade of his brand, and also he called it "attractive or even pass away." It is actually an apt mantra for Kozuka, whose work deals very most openly in fancifulness-- view the birthday gathering balloons as well as cartoonish cat sweatshirts below-- but along with a disarming emotional, almost teenage sensitiveness that fizzles beneath the surface area. This compilation, he clarified, was him looking back on the last many years and figuring out where it goes hence. "It seems like our company remembered to our initial season and also compressed everything our team have actually planted up previously," he mentioned backstage after the show.Onto the clothes, then, which were actually psychotic. Multicolored baby houses were crocheted right into weaved polo bests or embroidered onto sports jackets, rainbow tweed was actually made into one-piece suits as well as Chanel-esque coats, as well as brilliant daubs of paint were smattered throughout sweatpants, hoodies, and smock gowns. Toile de jouy array in pastoral scenes all over canvass coats as well as weaved sweatshirts, while whimsical sketches of properties or humanlike animals adorned others, like tableaux from a kids's storybook. The general impact was just one of spontaneous delight and weirdness, which Kozuka in some way wrangled in to an engaging collection.Blue-- deep, Yves Klein blue-- is a repeating reference for the designer, and stayed a strong touchpoint this time around around, appearing throughout the program (one design burst forth coming from a painted ultramarine canvas that doubled as a coat). It really did not stop there certainly: blue were the illuminations that bathed the room, and also blue were the pouches that contained the program takes note, hand-painted by the designer themself. Normally, the path was blue, also. "I have 2 pairs of friends: pair of from my neighborhood [in Osaka] as well as two I encountered just before I related to Tokyo. If I envision them as a different colors, it is actually blue," Kozuka said. "It's a colour I intend to cherish." As the show ended and our company submitted outside in to the summer months night, a stunning series of commemorative fireworks brightened the sky they became from an idolizer gig that had been taking place only nearby. The fireworks weren't planned for Kozuka, of course, however that hardly mattered. They may at the same time have been actually.