.Shinya Kozuka knows how to set a scene. In the past 2 times he's handled our team to a full moon and also a swimming pool in the putting rainfall, as well as this evening he erected his path in a colossal makeshift crate outside Tokyo's National Stadium, in order that the noise of cicadas chirruping in the plants filled up the night air. The show significant ten years of his brand, as well as he phoned it "beautiful or die." It's an apt mantra for Kozuka, whose work bargains very most overtly in fancifulness-- find the birthday event balloons and cartoonish kitty coats right here-- however with a disarming psychological, almost teen level of sensitivity that fizzes underneath the surface. This compilation, he described, was him looking back on the last years and also figuring out where it goes from here. "It feels like we remembered to our very first period and also short everything our experts've planted up until now," he mentioned backstage after the show.Onto the clothing, then, which were crazed. Multicolored miniature houses were crocheted into weaved shirt tops or even embroidered onto blazers, rainbow tweed was actually made into jumpsuits and Chanel-esque coats, and intense daubs of paint were actually smattered throughout sweatpants, hoodies, and also smock dresses. Toile de jouy spreading in pastoral settings around canvas coats and weaved sweaters, while curious illustrations of buildings or humanlike creatures enhanced others, like tableaux from a little ones's storybook. The total result was among spontaneous pleasure and weirdness, which Kozuka somehow took on in to a powerful collection.Blue-- deeper, Yves Klein blue-- is actually a repeating reference for the designer, as well as remained a solid touchpoint this moment around, seeming throughout the show (one model ruptured forth coming from a repainted ultramarine canvass that doubled as a coating). It didn't stop there: blue were actually the illuminations that bathed the space, as well as blue were the envelopes that contained the program keeps in mind, hand-painted by the developer himself. Normally, the path was actually blue, also. "I possess 2 pairs of best friends: two coming from my hometown [in Osaka] and two I got to know before I concerned Tokyo. If I picture them as a different colors, it's blue," Kozuka pointed out. "It's a shade I intend to value." As the series ended and also we submitted outside in to the summertime night, a magnificent program of commemorative rockets brightened the sky they ended up coming from an idolizer show that had actually been actually happening merely nearby. The rockets weren't aimed for Kozuka, certainly, but that rarely mattered. They might at the same time have been actually.