Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2026 show in Paris made black once again the starting point and the entire vocabulary through which everything else was expressed. The collection was built from a series of layered constructions that shifted gently between the…
Yohji Yamamoto doesn’t merely respond to the moment, he addresses something more enduring, less visible. His work moves through time rather than being confined by it. For several years now, his Spring/Summer menswear collections have carried a recurring message, one part…
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 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…
In the world of fashion, where extravagance and spectacle often dominate, Yohji Yamamoto stands as a beacon of understated elegance and profound artistic vision. His runway shows are not just displays of clothing, but thoughtful reflections on the essence of design and…
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…
Yohji Yamamoto opened his Fall/Winter 2023 show with a recording of himself singing Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man.” It was not a gesture of vulnerability but of authorship, a reminder that Yamamoto’s work is ultimately about control. In an industry increasingly driven by…
Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2023 show drew an unusually large crowd, not for spectacle but for something more rare in fashion today: continuity. As younger designers revisit his 1990s archive and speculation about his future grows louder, Yamamoto’s quiet consistency…
Yohji Yamamoto’s Fall/Winter 2021 womenswear collection was presented not on a runway but within the quiet of his Aoyama flagship in Tokyo. The setting, subdued and direct, mirrored the tone of a collection shaped by disconnection and ambiguity. Amid a global crisis that has…
Yohji Yamamoto’s Fall/Winter 2021 menswear collection arrived as a digital presentation, filmed at the Aoyama flagship in Tokyo. Accompanied by the designer’s own voice and compositions, it framed itself as “a statement about today’s world,” but the message was layered with…