.Shinya Kozuka recognizes how to establish a setting. Over the last 2 periods he's handled our team to a moon as well as a swimming pool in the pouring rain, and also today he erected his path in an enormous makeshift crate outside Tokyo's National Coliseum, to ensure that the audio of cicadas chirruping in the plants filled the night sky. The show marked 10 years of his brand name, and he called it "picturesque or die." It is actually a likely rule for Kozuka, whose job bargains most openly in whimsy-- view the special day gathering balloons as well as cartoonish kitty sweaters listed here-- but with a disarming psychological, practically teenage sensitivity that fizzes beneath the surface. This collection, he revealed, was him reflecting on the final decade and also finding out where it goes hence. "It believes that our company remembered to our first period and also compressed whatever our team've cultivated up until now," he said backstage after the show.Onto the clothes, after that, which were psychotic. Vivid baby homes were actually crocheted into weaved polo tops or stitched onto sports jackets, rainbow tweed was actually made in to one-piece suits and Chanel-esque coats, as well as vivid daubs of coating were actually smattered around sweatpants, hoodies, and smock outfits. Toile de jouy array in pastoral scenes all over canvass layers and weaved coats, while whimsical illustrations of structures or even humanlike creatures embellished others, like tableaux coming from a children's storybook. The total result was among uninhibited joy and also weirdness, which Kozuka somehow altercated into a compelling collection.Blue-- deeper, Yves Klein blue-- is a recurring endorsement for the developer, as well as stayed a powerful touchpoint this moment around, appearing throughout the series (one style ruptured on from a coated ultramarine canvas that functioned as a coat). It failed to cease there: blue were the lights that bathed the space, and blue were the pouches that contained the program keeps in mind, hand-painted due to the designer himself. Normally, the runway was blue, too. "I have two pairs of friends: pair of coming from my neighborhood [in Osaka] and two I met prior to I came to Tokyo. If I picture all of them as a different colors, it is actually blue," Kozuka claimed. "It is actually a shade I wish to enjoy." As the series finished as well as our team filed outside into the summertime night, a spectacular series of commemorative fireworks illuminated the heavens they ended up being from an idol performance that had been actually happening just across the street. The rockets weren't aimed for Kozuka, obviously, however that hardly mattered. They may also have actually been actually.