Kawasaki Kazuya

CEO, Synflux / speculative fashion designerCity Tokyo

Born in 1991, Kawasaki Kazuya earned a master’s degree in media and governance at Keio University, where he also completed the doctoral program without earning a PhD. He specializes in design research and applied research practices for fashion design. His major awards include Global Fashion Agenda Trailblazer Programme Grand Prize, finalist for the Kering Generation Award Japan, the 41st Mainichi Fashion Grand Prize, Newcomer Award, and Shiseido Encouragement Award, H&M Foundation Global Change Award Special Prize, a Jury Selection in the Art Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival, and the Wired Creative Hack Award. Kawasaki was named a Forbes Japan 30 under 30 in 2019 and one of the WWD JAPAN NEXT LEADERS 2020. He is a member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s research group Fashion Future Lab: Thinking about Fashion in the Future. He is the author of Fashion for the Planet (2026, BNN), supervisor and editor of Speculations (2019, BNN), and co-author of Critical World: Fashion Studies (2022, Film Art) and Sustainable Fashion (2022, Gakugei Shuppansha).Last Updated: 2026.06

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