.Shinya Kozuka recognizes how to establish a scene. Previously two times he's handled us to a full moon as well as a pool in the pouring rain, as well as tonight he erected his path in a gigantic makeshift cage outside Tokyo's National Arena, to ensure that the audio of cicadas chirruping in the plants filled the evening sky. The series significant ten years of his brand name, and also he called it "picturesque or even die." It's an apt concept for Kozuka, whose job deals most openly in fancifulness-- observe the birthday celebration party balloons and also cartoonish pussy-cat sweaters listed below-- but along with a deactivating emotional, practically teenage sensitivity that fizzles beneath the surface. This selection, he clarified, was him looking back on the final decade and figuring out where it goes from here. "It believes that our experts recalled to our very first season as well as condensed every little thing we have actually cultivated up until now," he pointed out backstage after the show.Onto the garments, then, which were psychotic. Multicolored miniature properties were crocheted into weaved polo leadings or stitched onto blazers, rainbow tweed was produced into jumpsuits and also Chanel-esque jackets, and also bright daubs of coating were smattered throughout sweatpants, hoodies, and also smock outfits. Toile de jouy spreading in pastoral settings throughout canvas layers and also weaved sweaters, while whimsical illustrations of buildings or even humanlike creatures embellished others, like tableaux coming from a children's storybook. The total impact was among spontaneous delight and quirkiness, which Kozuka in some way took on right into an engaging collection.Blue-- deeper, Yves Klein blue-- is actually a recurring reference for the designer, and also stayed a strong touchpoint this time all around, showing up throughout the show (one style ruptured on coming from a coated ultramarine canvas that functioned as a coat). It didn't stop certainly there: blue were the lightings that bathed the room, and blue were actually the envelopes which contained the series takes note, hand-painted by the designer himself. Normally, the runway was actually blue, too. "I possess two sets of best buddies: two coming from my hometown [in Osaka] as well as two I met before I concerned Tokyo. If I envision all of them as a color, it is actually blue," Kozuka said. "It's a shade I want to cherish." As the program ended and also our team filed outdoors right into the summer night, a magnificent show of commemorative rockets illuminated the skies they turned out to be from an idol show that had been taking place merely across the street. The fireworks weren't wanted for Kozuka, naturally, yet that hardly mattered. They could as well have been.