Born in Japan, 1991. Kazuya Kawasaki is a fashion designer who is trying to create a new era of speculative fashion. He designs fashion works that speculate on an alternative fashion industry in order to explore the possibility of fusion between fashion design and emerging technology such as biotechnology and wearable technology. Kazuyas works have been presented at National Museum of Scotland(UK, 2017), Hong kong Design Institute (2016, Hong Kong), Design Indaba (2016, Capetown), and AXIS gallery (Tokyo, 2015). He is working as a textile researcher at Poiesis Labs founded by Shiho Fukuhara.