.Shinya Kozuka understands just how to prepare a setting. In the past 2 seasons he's handled us to a moon and a pool in the pouring storm, and tonite he erected his runway in a big makeshift cage outside Tokyo's National Stadium, so that the noise of cicadas chirruping in the trees filled up the evening air. The program significant ten years of his company, and he called it "beautiful or die." It's a likely concept for Kozuka, whose work bargains very most overtly in whimsy-- find the special day event balloons as well as cartoonish kitty sweatshirts below-- but with a disabling psychological, almost adolescent sensitivity that fizzles under the area. This compilation, he described, was him reviewing the final decade and also identifying where it goes from here. "It seems like our team recalled to our first season and short whatever we have actually cultivated up previously," he claimed backstage after the show.Onto the clothing, at that point, which were actually crazed. Vivid baby properties were actually crocheted in to weaved shirt leadings or even stitched onto blazers, rainbow tweed was made right into one-piece suits as well as Chanel-esque jackets, and intense daubs of coating were actually smattered all over sweatpants, hoodies, and smock dresses. Toile de jouy spreading in pastoral settings across canvas coatings and weaved sweatshirts, while whimsical sketches of structures or even humanlike animals decorated others, like tableaux from a youngsters's storybook. The overall effect was one of spontaneous pleasure and also weirdness, which Kozuka somehow wrangled into a compelling collection.Blue-- deep-seated, Yves Klein blue-- is actually a persisting recommendation for the developer, and continued to be a tough touchpoint this time around all around, showing up throughout the show (one style ruptured on coming from a coated ultramarine canvass that doubled as a layer). It failed to quit there certainly: blue were the lights that bathed the room, and also blue were the pouches which contained the series notes, hand-painted due to the developer himself. Naturally, the runway was actually blue, also. "I have pair of sets of best friends: 2 from my neighborhood [in Osaka] and also 2 I got to know just before I related to Tokyo. If I picture them as a color, it's blue," Kozuka said. "It's a shade I desire to treasure." As the show ended and our experts submitted outside in to the summertime evening, a stunning program of congratulatory fireworks lit up the skies they became coming from an idol performance that had been actually happening simply across the street. The fireworks weren't wanted for Kozuka, obviously, however that hardly mattered. They might as well have been.