Yohji Yamamoto. Spring 2019 – Paris Fashion Week

(Images from vogue.com and wwd.com and the public domain. All rights. Used in promotion of the designer.)

The master designer Yohji Yamamoto presents his latest collection for Paris Fashion Week, rather than mirroring previous shows pieces, his Spring Ready-to-Wear 2019 collection manifests something a little deeper.  With culture and media clashing on digitized feedback loops. Confusion reigns on all sides, and it is through this chaos one synchronizes a purpose - which is the creative.  Ambiguity can assist in this discernment.  Yet, at times the blunt is also significant in relaying its zeal through aesthetics.  Once again, a designer (Yamamoto) has touched upon the climate of discord amongst popular culture.  The so called gender identity issues that the media has over emphasized as a schism within society.  The fears raised form both sides from these feigned argument/s is the issue or rights and identity and the impact that it may have on society.  Yamamoto has commented with his Spring 2019 RTW styles, that he felt that young men were "losing" their identity crossing over into feminine styles as a clothing trend.  An observation via Yamamoto to which he has ensured to bring back the feminine, the sexy and seductive desires of female fashion.  Which, as I have reviewed and mentioned in my critique of the various fashion shows over the years; woman are adept at wearing all styles of fashion -  from the masculine to the traditional feminine.  Men aren't as capable.  We (as a male) struggle to fuse onto the feminine identity in clothing.  The fluidity is solely a woman's gift.  Unisex fashion, in regards to a market, doesn't really exist. 

Yamamoto exudes the sex appeal and the lucidity of female sexuality with his Spring 2019 array, cuts into the fabric above and below the thigh as a tantalizing view.  See-through and sheer modal tops, revealing necklines, as Yamamoto maintains, throughout this collection, the various systematical cuts into the clothes (mostly in around the upper legs) and pinched styles as visual cues that the models are naked underneath.  Yamamoto's take on thigh high slit dresses, restructured under his signature styles.  Lingerie inspired suspenders, attached to leggings which have been inlayed with find wool pants. Very unique and enticing.  Off the shoulder, draped styles, Grecian and Roman dresses.  Maintaining his use of black in crafting an alluring collection, which in turn sets the mystique - the unknown. 

Yojhi Yamamoto, who over the many years as a fashion designer, has been able to discern the blunt and subtle brush strokes within his use of the achromatic.  The fusing of dark and light as backdrops to his mastery.  Red continues to be set within his collections, as noticed with his previous show pieces. Of course, red is also intensely a sexual color. Maybe Yamamoto's idea of interposing the building of subtle desires to ravenous possibilities.  Paradoxically the show closes with a fusion of color.  In his own description for his Spring 2019 collection. A simple open question with an obvious answer, to which he asked. "Isn't it very sexy?"