Reblog: (February 12, 2022) YOHJI YAMAMOTO. FALL 2022 MENSWEAR – TOKYO, JAPAN

"Yohji Yamamoto after forty years of runway showings, has, like most fashion designers, being affected by the global pandemic, with its on and off again fashion weeks since the 2021 openings, once again is at the mercy of restrictions which have been implemented across Europe in lieu of the this new viral outbreak. Thus, Yamamoto has held his Fall 2022 collection at his labels’ flagship store in the suburb of Aoyama, in Tokyo, maintaining the recurring theme since is Fall 2021 showing of the furlong and worn look of an aging master, with models hair streaked gray, with a deliberate effort to remove some of their youthful glow. This is Yamamoto playing around with his own aging stature, in a paradoxical and not so subtle reflection of schooling the youth of what it is to age and become older, he turned 78 in October 2021.  

Is it all about aging? In some ways it is, the pandemic has slammed into the older generation in a brutal and unforgiving way..."

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Full Review:  https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/02/yohji-yamamoto-fall-2022-menswear-tokyo.html