Some time ago, SpaceX which is Elon Musk’s space transportation company said slyly on the INS: To bring a mysterious character to heaven. On September 18th, the world’s first private space traveler finally appeared, taking a photo closely with Musk in front of the BFR rocket. He is Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, Japan fashion guru, who is also the founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo.

It is said that Maezawa spent about $250 million to get the rocket ticket. However, the reason for spending vast amount of money is very simple, “When I was a child, I fell in love with the moon”, Maezawa said. Yusaku Maezawa was born in 1975. His personal asset has reached to $3.6 billion in the last year, and ranked third in the Japanese young rich list. His life motto is: “You should buy what you like.” One year ago, he bought an untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting for $110 million, just because “gets great joy from this painting”. It also makes him mostly famous outside Japan.

In fact, he is not a rich second generation, but a self-employed entrepreneur. When he was young, he had never liked to follow the rules of life. Maezawa was a rebellious teenager who dyed his hair and skated. When he was in high school, he fell in love with the music, firstly playing the guitar, and became a drummer later, even built a group of bands, and released an album. However, because of feeling tired about the regular tour and recording, he decided to develop his interests of music into a business at the age of 23. He imported CDs and hard-core records from abroad to Japan. This active was very avant-garde for 20 years ago. Because of the CD was sold very well, he learned programming by himself, and built an e-commerce website to sell the music products. Meanwhile he sold the trendy clothing, “Because people who like music wear it very well”, Maezawa said. At the age of 29, he founded Zozotown which is Japan’s largest street fashion website in 2004. After three years, the company went to the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has been operating well for years.

His round-the-moon tour is expected to start in 2023 aboard SpaceX’s forthcoming Big Falcon Rocket spaceship, taking the race to commercialize space travel to new heights. He not only got the Rocket ticket and also contract the travel warehouse order to invite six to eight artists who are from different fields to go to the moon together. He said that it is only because of the curiousness about these brain-opening artists will create how amazing works after going to the moon: “What will happened if Picasso, Andy Warhol, Michael Jackson, John Lennon or Coco Chanel once went to the moon?” Maezawa has never taken the usual path in his life, as what he wrote on his personal homepage: “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”