TOKYO BIENNALE



TOKYO BIENNARE
PLANNING FOR 2020

To Be Clad in the City

Kosuke Tsumura

Fashion designer

Serves as Professor at Musashino Art University Scenography, Display and Fashion Design Department, and adjunct professor at Bunka Fashion College. After being awarded with the “so-en award” (emerging fashion designer award), joined Miyake Design Studio, mainly in charge of designs relating to the Paris Collection. Founded fashion brands, “KOSUKE TSUMURA” and “FINAL HOME”, and has since received the “12th Tokyo New Designer Fashion Grand Prix” and “Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix – Shiseido Encouragement Award”.

Hold a fashion show along the main pathway of temples and shrines to recreate fashion as sport

Make “puzzleware” using materials that can be gathered from localities to connect and mix Tokyo’s deep history with diverse cultures, resulting in a redefininition of value. The material and way of connecting “puzzleware” is left free to the participant. Without needing a sewing machine, anyone can mix and match anywhere. “Puzzleware” will be developed within the city, presenting fashion as sport.

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