Kosuke Tsumura

Kosuke Tsumura (born 1959) is a Japanese fashion designer and artist particularly known for his Final Home label.

Early life Kosuke Tsumura was born in 1959 in Saitama, Japan.

In 1982 he won the Soen Prize, an award made by the leading Japanese fashion magazine Soen since 1956 to new young talent in the field of fashion design. Previous winners had included Kansai Yamamoto and Yohji Yamamoto. Issey Miyake, another former winner of the Soen Award, employed Tsumura the following year. ), conceived as an essential piece should the wearer find themselves made homeless due to war, natural disaster or unemployment. To test his concept, Tsumura wore the prototype to sleep rough in Centennial Park, New York for several nights. and the ATOPOS collection, Athens.

In 2020, Tsumura said that the Issey Miyake company still held the copyright to Final Home, hence why the brand was no longer in operation.

As artist Due to the success of the Final Home label, Tsumura was able to become increasingly experimental as a designer and also pursue artistic endeavours outside the fashion industry.

In 1992 he received second prize in the 21st exhibition of Japanese contemporary art in Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art, and exhibited again there in 1999. He contributed to the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2000 and the Shanghai Biennale in 2002.