.Shinya Kozuka understands how to prepare a scene. In the past two times he is actually handled our company to a full moon and also a swimming pool in the pouring rainfall, and also today he erected his runway in a gigantic makeshift crate outside Tokyo's National Arena, to ensure that the audio of cicadas chirruping in the plants filled up the night air. The series significant ten years of his brand name, as well as he phoned it "charming or even die." It's an apt mantra for Kozuka, whose job packages most overtly in fancifulness-- observe the birthday celebration balloons and cartoonish feline sweatshirts listed here-- but with a disabling mental, just about teenage level of sensitivity that fizzles underneath the area. This selection, he clarified, was him looking back on the last years and also figuring out where it goes from here. "It thinks that our experts recalled to our 1st time as well as short every little thing our company have actually planted up previously," he mentioned backstage after the show.Onto the clothing, at that point, which were psychotic. Colorful mini residences were actually crocheted into knitted polo tops or even stitched onto blazers, rainbow tweed was actually made in to jumpsuits and also Chanel-esque coats, and intense daubs of paint were smattered across sweatpants, hoodies, and smock gowns. Toile de jouy array in pastoral settings throughout canvass coatings as well as knitted sweatshirts, while curious sketches of buildings or even anthropomorphic animals embellished others, like tableaux from a youngsters's storybook. The overall impact was among spontaneous happiness as well as quirkiness, which Kozuka somehow wrangled in to a powerful collection.Blue-- deep, Yves Klein blue-- is a repeating endorsement for the designer, and also stayed a strong touchpoint this moment about, appearing throughout the show (one design ruptured on coming from a coated ultramarine canvas that functioned as a coat). It really did not stop there: blue were actually the lights that bathed the area, and also blue were the pouches that contained the show notes, hand-painted due to the professional himself. Naturally, the runway was actually blue, as well. "I have two pairs of best friends: pair of coming from my hometown [in Osaka] and also 2 I got to know before I involved Tokyo. If I envision all of them as a shade, it's blue," Kozuka claimed. "It is actually a different colors I wish to treasure." As the program ended and also we filed outdoors into the summer night, an amazing program of commemorative rockets lit up the skies they turned out to be coming from an idol performance that had actually been actually going on simply across the street. The fireworks weren't meant for Kozuka, obviously, yet that barely mattered. They might also have been.