.Shinya Kozuka knows how to establish a scene. Previously two seasons he is actually alleviated us to a moon and a swimming pool in the pouring rainfall, and also tonight he erected his path in a colossal makeshift crate outside Tokyo's National Coliseum, to ensure that the audio of cicadas chirruping in the plants packed the evening sky. The program marked one decade of his company, and he called it "picturesque or die." It's an apt mantra for Kozuka, whose job offers most openly in fancifulness-- view the birthday gathering balloons as well as cartoonish feline sweatshirts listed here-- but with a disabling psychological, nearly adolescent level of sensitivity that fizzes beneath the surface. This compilation, he discussed, was him reflecting on the last years as well as identifying where it goes away. "It feels like our team recalled to our very first season and condensed everything we have actually grown up previously," he stated backstage after the show.Onto the clothes, then, which were actually crazed. Vibrant baby residences were actually crocheted in to knitted shirt leadings or stitched onto sports jackets, rainbow tweed was actually made right into jumpsuits and also Chanel-esque coats, and also vivid daubs of coating were smattered across sweatpants, hoodies, and also smock outfits. Toile de jouy spread in pastoral settings throughout canvas coats as well as weaved coats, while curious illustrations of properties or even anthropomorphic pets adorned others, like tableaux coming from a kids's storybook. The general impact was one of uninhibited joy and also weirdness, which Kozuka in some way altercated into a powerful collection.Blue-- deep, Yves Klein blue-- is actually a reoccuring endorsement for the professional, as well as remained a tough touchpoint this moment around, appearing throughout the program (one version ruptured forth from a painted ultramarine canvas that doubled as a coating). It failed to stop there: blue were the lights that bathed the area, as well as blue were actually the pouches that contained the show notes, hand-painted by the professional himself. Naturally, the runway was actually blue, as well. "I have pair of sets of friends: pair of from my neighborhood [in Osaka] and pair of I encountered before I pertained to Tokyo. If I picture them as a colour, it is actually blue," Kozuka mentioned. "It is actually a color I intend to treasure." As the program ended and also our team submitted outdoors into the summer season night, a stunning series of commemorative rockets illuminated the heavens they became from a beloved gig that had been actually taking place only across the street. The fireworks weren't planned for Kozuka, certainly, yet that barely mattered. They might also have actually been actually.