For spring, Maiko Kurogouchi dove into her “personal landscape,” snapshots of scenes and moments filtered by time and affection.

The conduit for her seasonal musing was glass, starting with the patterned windowpanes in her grandmother’s house and broadening to encompass Japanese-made glass from the 17th-century Edo period onward.

As always, the Japanese designer’s pre-show exhibits were a treat for the craft obsessed, with sheets of pressed glass, cups with opaline edges and even a small Roman flagon some 3,000 years old.

Details taken from glass and icy landscapes around Kurogouchi’s hometown of Nagano, Japan, best known for hosting the 1988 Winter Olympics, were distilled throughout the collection, turning up as a star-filled filmy jacquard on tops and dresses; finely embroidered on t

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