He, more than most designers, is the poet of black, the director. Fashion s great anti fashion designer yohji yamamoto has a singular aesthetic sensibility. Many people at the recent paris showings said he is the best of the new. Yamamoto made his debut in paris in 1981, and, together with rei kawakubo of comme des garcons, revolutionised the fashion scene overnight with an intellectual, conceptual approach to fashion. Yohji yamamoto is known for the avantgarde spirit of his clothing. Yohji yamamoto, one of the most enigmatic and iconoclastic fashion designers of.
Inspiring to those relating with creative processes and how personal life and work meet. The new yohji yamamoto book celebrates the life and. All about yohji yamamoto from 1968 japan fashion design. His signature oversized silhouettes in black often feature drapery in varying textures.
He showed new ideas made with his usual impeccable quality. The seed for this book was planted many years ago, at the start of takays career. Long before rick owens, the reigning dark lord of mens fashion, was a glint in the eye of any buyer with a penchant for all black everything, yohji was, quite literally, cutting a mean figure on. Distinguished by his antifashion approach, yamamoto changed the face of contempora javascript seems to be disabled in your browser. Yohji yamamoto may stand barely five feet tall, but his effect on world fashion in the last two years has been enormous. The inspirational miyake, yamamoto and kawakubo have gained. The fashion revolution of avantgarde japanese designers. In the black box of a space that is the fashion designers ultrachic paris hq, celebrations are well under way. The complete yohji yamamoto fall 2017 readytowear fashion show now on vogue runway. Limi yamamoto, his daughter, followed his footsteps and debuted in 2000 at the tokyo fashion week. Your source for the latest yohji yamamoto news, updates, collections. Yohji yamamoto fall 2017 readytowear collection vogue. The book is a little compendium of short stories written by the designer, telling moments of his life.
Its a light, special book for those interested or not in fashion and the work of yohji yamamoto. Books on design theory, aesthetics and history poster design and art. Yohji yamamoto has built a career on proving that black aggressive, rebellious, somber, romantic or seductive is beautiful. Other than this, yohji yamamoto was in a relationship with rei kawakubo, a fellow progressive fashion designer, during the 1980s and 1990s. Yohji yamamoto is widely regarded as ranking among the greatest fashion designers of the late twentieth and early twentyfirst centuries. Born in 1943, yohji yamamoto graduates from keio university in 1966 and receives two leading fashion awards in japan, the soen award and the endo award in 1969. Eager to express himself under its own name, he goes into the creative adventure by setting up his company ys company ltd. He is one of the few in his profession who have successfully broken the boundaries between commodity and art. This is mens page for yohji yamamoto s official online shopping website. He went for puccilike colours for the first time, red, blue, fuschia, all on glorious coats with widebreasted front panels. Fluence the continuance of yohji yamamoto artbook d. Avantgarde darling yohji yamamoto marries master tailoring with japanese aesthetics in utilitarian yet elegant designs.
This volume celebrates the creative power and style of the great japanese designer yohji yamamoto. A brief history of yohji yamamoto another mens fashion blog. Yohji yamamoto led the japanese fashion wave of the 1980s and 1990s into the new millennium. Admire his oversized silhouettes and gender transcendent clothing in this stunning selection of photographs from the archives of id magazine, accompanied by the designers biography and personal insights. Skirtthis is mens page for yohji yamamoto s official online shopping website. Since the early 80s, yohji yamamotos groundbreaking silhouettes and innov. Famed for his abstract silhouettes, flat shoes and unswerving loyalty to the colour black, yohji yamamoto is one of the most important and influential fashion designers working today. Distinguished by his antifashion approach, yamamoto changed the. Yohji yamamoto bof 500 the people shaping the global. As one of the most mentally rigorous designers working in fashion, yohji yamamoto creates garments that can be intellectual.
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