Yohji Yamamoto

[kowei]

Wait a minute, is that "sapeurs" thing existing anywhere outside of north Paris?
Is it a real movement?

Edit:

Wow. Flabbergasted

[Faust]

Thanks for the clarification, guys and the Sapeur article is fascinating!

[Faust]

RIP, Y's for men.

[michael_kard]

Y's ceased to exist a few years ago, 2009 maybe?

[Dane]

RIP, Y's for men.

Seriously?

[Faust]

Seriously :(

[chameleon]

I also thought it shut down earlier but perhaps I've been mistaken, I think YYPH ss10 felt like an amalgamation of sorts of Y's for Men and YYPH (though not since then) and I can't recall having seen any lookbooks for men's since AW09 but perhaps they've been selling it until now?

We should take some time remember some of the amazing Y's for men stuff that was produced up in the first half of the 00's (and in the 90's I'm sure) up until 06/07 or so.

[michael_kard]

I have seen it for sale at quite a few stores, but I suspect it's old stock. I went to the Yohji London store a year ago and they told me the line was discontinued.

[syed]

I went to the Yohji London store a year ago and they told me the line was discontinued.

Yeah same, at the beginning of last year they told me that it was discontinued, but there would be people still stocking stuff for a while. Yoox to the rescue I guess.

[chameleon]

"Pina Bausch + Yohji Yamamoto: Fusion between the two"

Pina in one of Yohji's signature jackets from his AW2002 menswear collection on the cover of MR magazine




I just wanted to share this because I think it's an amazing picture, but if anyone has the magazine above (a longshot, I know), please scan and upload this portrait shoot. I couldn't bear paying the $50+ just for a 6 page spread but I'd love to see the photos from this.

[fashiondisaster]

"Pina Bausch + Yohji Yamamoto: Fusion between the two"

Pina in one of Yohji's signature jackets from his AW2002 menswear collection on the cover of MR magazine

DO NOT REPOST IMAGES ON THE SAME PAGE, PLEASE.

Tnx for share...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This sure, which was great ... and especially TRUE.
FD

[Ivor Montagu]

SS12

...Great piece...

[chameleon]

I thought I'd post the few pics I have available from some mid-90s collections. From the stuff I've seen in person, the quality is incredible - probably better than today - this stuff holds up really well so there's no reason to not buy it! I love a lot of this, these are some of the classic collections from the 90's that people still remember.


AUTUMN-WINTER 1995

The theme was 鹿鳴館 (Rokumeikan; Meiji-era Western-style building in downtown Tokyo, constructed in 1883 for entertaining foreign diplomats and dignitaries). From wiki: "In the ballroom, Japanese gentlemen in evening dress imported from tailors in London danced the waltz, polka, quadrille, and mazurka with Japanese ladies dressed in the latest Parisian fashions". At the same time, Yohji also seemed to contrast this cultural blend against an american backdrop from the same time, ended up with some urban cowbow amalgamation where cowboy hats were juxtaposed with japanese prints from this era while at the same time doing his take on european formal wear I guess. Basically a suits collection, many takes on informal and formal suits. From what I've seen, a fucking great collection.

[chameleon]

SPRING-SUMMER 1996

"Flowers and boys". He used several 12, 13 year old models for this show. The cuts were very wide, looking at the pics it almost feels like a teenage boy wearing his father's clothes and making them his own in a way. Didn't he have a section in "My dear bomb" alluding to his? The concept I mean, not this particular collection. He did a lot of clever cutout patterns on jackets, coats, gabardine shirts as well as shoes. The other big theme was flowers, lots of flower prints on shirts, shoes and jackets. The stage was lined with flowers like sunflowers and tulips

[chameleon]

AUTUMN-WINTER 1996


For this collection he did a lot of layering with bulky knits, complicated inserts, object dyed suits (similar to y's for men aw03), huge velvet coats, corduroy suits, etc. A lot of good stuff in here, imo.