.Shinya Kozuka recognizes how to specify a setting. Previously pair of periods he's managed us to a moon and also a swimming pool in the putting storm, as well as tonite he erected his path in an enormous makeshift cage outside Tokyo's National Arena, so that the noise of cicadas chirruping in the plants loaded the evening air. The series marked one decade of his company, and also he called it "stunning or pass away." It is actually an apt rule for Kozuka, whose work bargains most openly in whimsy-- find the birthday celebration celebration balloons as well as cartoonish feline sweaters below-- but along with a deactivating mental, practically teen sensitiveness that fizzles underneath the surface. This compilation, he explained, was him looking back on the last many years as well as identifying where it goes from here. "It feels like our experts looked back to our first period and also short everything our company've planted up previously," he claimed backstage after the show.Onto the clothing, after that, which were actually crazed. Vivid miniature houses were actually crocheted right into weaved polo bests or embroidered onto sports jackets, rainbow tweed was helped make in to one-piece suits and Chanel-esque coats, and also brilliant daubs of paint were actually smattered all over sweatpants, hoodies, and smock gowns. Toile de jouy array in pastoral scenes across canvass coats and weaved sweaters, while quaint sketches of properties or humanlike animals decorated others, like tableaux coming from a youngsters's storybook. The overall effect was among spontaneous happiness and also weirdness, which Kozuka in some way took on right into a compelling collection.Blue-- deep-seated, Yves Klein blue-- is a repeating recommendation for the professional, and continued to be a tough touchpoint this time around, appearing throughout the program (one design burst on from a coated ultramarine canvas that doubled as a layer). It really did not quit there: blue were the illuminations that bathed the area, and also blue were actually the envelopes which contained the series keeps in mind, hand-painted due to the designer himself. Normally, the path was blue, also. "I possess two pairs of buddies: pair of coming from my home town [in Osaka] and also pair of I got to know before I came to Tokyo. If I visualize them as a different colors, it is actually blue," Kozuka stated. "It is actually a color I would like to cherish." As the show ended and we filed outside in to the summer months night, a magnificent program of commemorative fireworks lit up the heavens they turned out to be coming from an idol concert that had actually been taking place just nearby. The fireworks weren't planned for Kozuka, of course, however that hardly mattered. They may as well have been.