There are few designers whose work transcends the cyclical nature of fashion. Yohji Yamamoto, now in his eighties, is one of them. His Fall/Winter 2024 women’s collection, shown in Paris, felt like both a continuation and an intimate revelation, a poetic meditation on time…
In the gilded salons of Hôtel Le Marois, a different kind of beauty took shape. Shadows moved against mirrored walls, elongated figures stepping forward with a precision that felt both ancient and alien. It was here, in this fractured reverie of the 19th century, that Matières…
From Rick Owens: “For our men’s collection, shown 6 weeks ago, I wrote the following:’Naming this collection Concordians, I was thinking about my 22 years of traveling to our factory in this small industrial Italian town, Concordia. And not just alone but with my team…
From Rick Owens: “Naming this collection Concordians, I was thinking about my 22 years of traveling to our factory in this small industrial Italian town, Concordia. And not just alone, but with my team, all traveling from their respective glittering cities—to live here in a kind of studious isolation…
From Rick Owens: “Our last show presented a white satin army of love, my response to the realization that holding the previous season’s shows in my house with a reduced audience ended up being an act of exclusion instead of the observance of respect in the face of our current wars that…
In Yohji Yamamoto’s latest collection, the designer continues to navigate the delicate interplay between fragility and strength, offering a reflection on the complexities of modern femininity through a masterful manipulation of fabrics. This season’s collection…
From Rick Owens: “Last season’s collection was named ‘Porterville’ after the small judgmental town I had to escape from. This season’s collection is named ‘Hollywood’ after the boulevard of vice I gleefully ran to… to find my people… weirdos and freaks… living in a world Lou Reed described…
Junya Watanabe’s latest collection challenges the conventional boundaries of fashion by redefining it as a form of personal public art. Drawing inspiration from sculpture, Watanabe’s designs create a beautiful contrast between clothes and sculptures, merging conventional…
From Rick Owens: “Following our men’s show, we are once again showing in my home and working compound where we began selling our collections 25 years ago – an intimate move in observance of the barbaric times through in which we are living. The show is called ‘Porterville’ recalling my…”
From Rick Owens: “I went to a Björk concert earlier this month and her intelligent, life affirming energy made me kind of embarrassed of my own mopey adolescent pessimism… and hers wasn’t a Disney escapist obliviousness, but a concerned and thoughtful trust in…”
Yohji Yamamoto, the maestro of avant-garde fashion, is set to celebrate his 80th birthday on October 3. With over four decades in the fashion industry, his passion for creating remains as strong as ever, evident in the recent showcase of his latest collection in Paris. The event displayed an…
From Rick Owens: “With our World conditions under increasing threat, jubilance seems like the wrong note but maybe it’s the only correct moral response? beyond being nice to each other, isn’t personal joy what we are put on Earth to do? Considering joy a moral obligation…”