“A statement about today’s world.” According to the show notes, that’s the takeaway from Yohji Yamamoto’s fall men’s show, which was presented in a video format. Statements that might be described as rebel yells there were aplenty: Coats and suits were printed and embroidered with random, untethered phrases including “Amazing Grace” and more…
From Rick Owens: “I spend my summers on Venice’s Lido, the site of thomas mann’s novella death in Venice. The main character, a writer ascetically devoted to his craft, develops an obsession with a youth and ends up dying on the beach from Cholera during an epidemic with desperately age-defying hair dye running down his face in the hot sun…”