Milano MI, Italy
Whatever you do, don’t call the Japanese designer’s 25-look exhibition at 10 Corso Como a retrospective. And, despite the show’s future-focused name, curator Alessio de’ Navasques emphasizes the designer’s “ambivalent and poetic relationship with time.” As a result, “Love Letter to the Future” spans place, period, and theme, with influences ranging from French couture tailoring to Japan’s post-war years, shibari, and his characteristic celebration of the female form in his first show in Italy in nearly 20 years.