Hiroko Koshino, learning to create

You don’t enter to look, but to understand how a form begins. In Tokyo, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the exhibition developed within the Next Creation Program shifts the focus from finished works to the moment they take shape, change, and open to unexpected directions. At the center is Hiroko Koshino, a key figure in Japanese fashion, approached less as an established author than as a point of transition between generations and languages. Her works are presented alongside those created within the Kids’ Fashion Project, where children and teenagers engage in workshops, shows and creative processes. The result is not a simple juxtaposition, but a shared space where the distance between professional and beginner becomes less defined. The project is part of the public Next Creation Program promoted by the Arts Council Tokyo, reflecting a broader shift: cultural institutions are no longer just places to display, but environments where ideas are produced and tested. Within this framework, fashion moves away from pure industry or representation and returns to being practice, exercise, attempt. What emerges is an open system where forms are never fixed but move through stages, errors and detours. Rather than narrating a career, the exhibition traces a movement - from intuition to construction - that remains, by nature, unfinished.