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, characterized by its seemingly haphazard yet deeply intentional construction, evokes a narrative of…
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 the interplay between form and function. The recent Yohji Yamamoto fashion show…
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 experimental yet nuanced lineup that paid homage to iconic couturiers while…
Tonight’s Yohji Yamamoto show opened with the designer himself singing Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man” on the soundtrack. The singer once said that the song was an answer of sorts to the perennial question, “what does a woman want?” Cohen was on the side of flexibility: “If you want a lover /I’ll do anything you ask me to / And if you want another kind of love…
There were spillover crowds at tonight’s Yohji Yamamoto show. Maybe it’s because Yohji is in the air again, with younger designers reexamining his 1990s oeuvre. Maybe it’s because Yamamoto turns 79 next week and there are questions about retirement and succession. The designer emerged for his bow as spry as ever, so perhaps such talk is premature…
Disconnected from past routines and facing an uncertain future, we live in suspension, unable to avoid uncomfortable truths, like the unequal impact the pandemic has had on women, many of whom have had to abandon their careers to care for their children. Yohji Yamamoto has always been drawn to 19th-century modes and referenced corsets, hoops…