.Shinya Kozuka recognizes just how to set a scene. Previously 2 periods he's managed us to a moon and a swimming pool in the pouring storm, as well as tonight he erected his runway in a gigantic makeshift crate outside Tokyo's National Coliseum, to ensure that the audio of cicadas chirruping in the plants filled the night sky. The series marked one decade of his label, as well as he called it "attractive or perish." It is actually a likely concept for Kozuka, whose job bargains most overtly in fancifulness-- observe the birthday celebration celebration balloons and also cartoonish kitty sweaters below-- however along with a deactivating mental, practically teen level of sensitivity that fizzles under the surface. This compilation, he revealed, was him reflecting on the last many years and figuring out where it goes away. "It believes that our experts remembered to our 1st season and compressed every thing we have actually grown up until now," he mentioned backstage after the show.Onto the outfits, after that, which were actually psychotic. Vivid miniature homes were actually crocheted in to weaved shirt bests or stitched onto sports jackets, rainbow tweed was actually made right into jumpsuits and also Chanel-esque jackets, as well as brilliant daubs of paint were actually smattered across sweatpants, hoodies, and smock dresses. Toile de jouy spread in pastoral scenes throughout canvas coats as well as knitted sweaters, while quaint sketches of properties or anthropomorphic pets enhanced others, like tableaux from a little ones's storybook. The total result was just one of uninhibited pleasure and also eccentricity, which Kozuka somehow wrangled into a compelling collection.Blue-- deep-seated, Yves Klein blue-- is a recurring recommendation for the professional, and also remained a solid touchpoint this time around, appearing throughout the program (one version ruptured forth coming from a painted ultramarine canvas that doubled as a layer). It failed to cease there: blue were actually the lightings that bathed the room, and also blue were the envelopes that contained the series takes note, hand-painted due to the professional himself. Normally, the path was blue, too. "I have pair of sets of best buddies: 2 from my hometown [in Osaka] and also 2 I got to know prior to I pertained to Tokyo. If I envision all of them as a different colors, it is actually blue," Kozuka pointed out. "It's a shade I want to enjoy." As the series finished and also our experts filed outside into the summer season night, an amazing series of commemorative rockets illuminated the sky they became coming from an idol concert that had been actually going on simply across the street. The fireworks weren't intended for Kozuka, certainly, yet that barely mattered. They could at the same time have been.