Excerpt: YOHJI YAMAMOTO. READY-TO-WEAR FALL 2023 - PARIS FASHION WEEK.

"Yohji Yamamoto beautifully draped, yet furlong stylization is now so engrained into the fashion world, it has become the main driver of what has been known as the Avant-garde.  Introduced to Paris in the late 1970's, along side fellow Japanese designer, the formidable Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons fame.  It is a lesson for the remaining designers of the last 20 years that are still designing under that rustic guise of the Avant-garde, to which many have fallen by the wayside to one of the most exclusive and niche markets in fashion.  And if you don't have that financial backing i.e acquired by a conglomerate, the life cycle of some of these brands inspired by Yamamoto and Kawakubo, have dissipated more than they have appeared..."

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/03/yohji-yamamoto-ready-to-wear-fall-2023.html?m=1

(A.Glass 2023)