Ryunosuke Okazaki is doing it all the wrong way around. Starting on September 13, the 30-year-old designer will have a month-long exhibition dedicated to his work at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Usually designers have to wait until they’re dead for that kind of honor. And here’s the real kicker: Okazaki has never sold a single item of ready-to-wear clothing.

Like Rorschach prints made fashion, his works are created through a process the designer likens to prayer, and are inspired by the animistic spirituality of Japan’s peaceful Jomon period, notably its pottery. The V&A showcase, called JOMONJOMON, marks the designer’s European debut, but not his global one: one of Okazaki’s dresses was chosen for the Met Museum’s “Sleeping Beauties” exhibition last year, and he has held exhib

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