For fall, Kozaburo Akasaka was persevering with the narrative he started together with his spring assortment, which was impressed by the characters that inhabit his imaginary utopia. This season, which he titled “Evening Fall,” was impressed by a visit to Texas, his go to to the Rothko Chapel in Houston, and the Stephen King novel Darkish Tower. All these issues weren’t straight translated into the gathering, quite they added as much as a sure form of darkish temper—and a terrific memento jacket with Americana motifs, together with a cactus and the Statue of Liberty.

Kozaburo has a transparent sense of his imaginative and prescient, which means fall was one other assortment stuffed with very cool, immediately fascinating items—particularly jackets. Like a kimono-type jacket with an prolonged shoulder and curved sleeves constituted of a black Japanese sashiko material with a particular honeycomb weave specifically developed by the designer. The bomber constituted of poly shearling after which coated in sheer nylon with an elasticized waist was undoubtedly one of many highlights of the gathering. Black and blue denim have been paired collectively in a sporty pullover anorak silhouette, Western-inspired button down shirts, and two-tone denims with Kozaburo’s signature slit on the entrance. He used a 100% wool bulbous knit within the honeycomb form for just a little sweater and matching cardigan in a shade of cement. An emerald inexperienced velvet go well with was impressed by one of many designer’s uniquely American obsessions. “I’m actually into this American folks artwork, velvet work,” he defined. “Velvet fits, for me, are additionally fairly an American factor.” A blue washed denim jacket, elongated shirt, and denims have been hand-dyed in his studio with logwood utilizing a conventional indigenous approach from South America. “I actually just like the unevenness of the hand dyeing,” he added. “It jogs my memory of a Rothko.”