Excerpt: 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, when, in some cases the viral contagion only mildly affected younger people it was the aging citizens and the immune compromised that were devastated by this horrible disease. Sans, the spreaders of misinformation downplaying the severity, this pandemic has been a scourge which has killed so many. The aging process humbles us, knowing that nature is the ultimate power, to which we may offer a rebellion against in our effort to survive its ferocity – but, in the end we accept that the process of birth and death is inevitable. This could be Yamamoto’s retrospection of the four decade old fashion designer who, in his stalwart manner, has been able to define not only Couture but also the avant-garde as distinctly an imprint of Yamamoto’s influence on the fashion industry..."

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

(A.Glass 2022)

Spring 2023 review soon.