Wabi-sabi (侘寂, Wabi-sabi?) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The phrase comes from the two words wabi and sabi. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" (according to Leonard Koren in his book Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers). It is a concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the Three marks of existence (三法印, sanbōin?), specifically impermanence (無常, mujō?). Note also that the Japanese word for rust, 錆 is also pronounced sabi (the borrowed Chinese character is different, but the word itself is of assumed common etymology), and there is an obvious semantic connection between these concepts.
Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, modesty, intimacy, and suggest a natural process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

Kenz 2008 Fall / Winter



White and Black contrast withe shading.
Red-Orange to give a dramatic notes.

White=color temperature cool

Black=color temperature warm

Red-orange=color temperature warm
and the sound is mediumsoft

Go-Kanosho, Higo Province Künstler: Ando Hiroshige art print / Poster

Kenzo Fall / Winter 2008

l blue-green-olive-gray = complements contrast , the temperature is cool
l and the sound quiet , mature and heavy.

black and white

dark color

red , grey ,dark green

fullcolor , rich color

Kenzo Spring / Summer 2008

Spring/Summer 2008

Theme of the season Flower

Colorful

Dark and light color contrast

Balance of Yellow-Red-Blue color

Mixed from complementary color

Example:

-The contrast between white and black

-Green-Orange-Red-Blue color represents the mixture of warm and cool color.

-The moisture of colors is dry and the sound loud.

-The hue is dramatic

Beach day

....last weekend I was on the beach. The sun was shining and the sand had a gold glitter color.

A woman with white dress went over the sand. The fabric color was Rice Paper(12-2902 TC)

Later I went to a little bar beside the beach.

I drank a cup of coffee. The milk  and coffee mixed to a color Corrosion (18-0840TC).

The waiter came, wearing a pair of ugly trousers in Family Tree (17-6153 TC).

He noticed my face and to stumble over a dog with the color Graphite(19-1606 TC).

His tray  dropped on my table and the cup of coffee tipped of me jeans with the color 

Blue Willow (19-4053 TC). Coffee and my blue Jeans had mixed together and became the color Poison Apple (19-1725 TC). The waiter said, " I am sorry for my mishap. What do you drink?", and I said,"Oh,it is not so bad, a swimming pool please, with the color Uncover(18-4537 TC)."

The drink was very tasty and looked very colorful.