.Shinya Kozuka knows just how to set a setting. In the past two seasons he is actually treated us to a moon as well as a swimming pool in the putting storm, and also today he erected his runway in a big makeshift cage outside Tokyo's National Arena, in order that the audio of cicadas chirruping in the trees filled the evening air. The series significant ten years of his brand, and also he contacted it "charming or even pass away." It's a likely rule for Kozuka, whose work bargains most openly in whimsy-- see the special day event balloons and also cartoonish kitty sweaters right here-- yet along with a disarming psychological, almost teen sensitivity that fizzles under the surface area. This collection, he revealed, was him looking back on the final years as well as determining where it goes hence. "It thinks that our team looked back to our first time as well as short every little thing our team have actually cultivated up previously," he said backstage after the show.Onto the outfits, at that point, which were psychotic. Multicolored miniature houses were crocheted in to weaved shirt leadings or even embroidered onto blazers, rainbow tweed was actually created into one-piece suits and Chanel-esque coats, and also brilliant daubs of coating were smattered throughout sweatpants, hoodies, as well as smock gowns. Toile de jouy spread in pastoral scenes across canvas coatings and knitted coats, while whimsical illustrations of structures or anthropomorphic animals adorned others, like tableaux coming from a children's storybook. The general effect was just one of spontaneous happiness as well as quirkiness, which Kozuka in some way took on into a powerful collection.Blue-- deep, Yves Klein blue-- is a repeating reference for the designer, and continued to be a solid touchpoint this time around, appearing throughout the show (one style burst on coming from a repainted ultramarine canvas that functioned as a layer). It really did not cease there: blue were the lights that bathed the area, as well as blue were the envelopes that contained the show takes note, hand-painted due to the professional himself. Normally, the path was blue, also. "I have two pairs of best buddies: pair of coming from my home town [in Osaka] and also two I encountered prior to I involved Tokyo. If I picture all of them as a shade, it's blue," Kozuka stated. "It's a different colors I would like to value." As the program ended and also our experts submitted outside into the summer season evening, an impressive program of congratulatory fireworks brightened the sky they turned out to be from an idol concert that had been going on simply across the street. The rockets weren't planned for Kozuka, of course, but that barely mattered. They could too have actually been.