EXCERPT: YOHJI YAMAMOTO. SPRING 2024 - PARIS FASHION WEEK

"...And Yamamoto over the years as been able to craft his styles of the feminine with such an acknowledged finesse, that many young designers have not been able to emulate.  The beautiful layering of fabrics, the slight tweaks in fits and Yamamoto's intricate stitchwork.  Have ensured that his signature label maintains the template that he had created four decades ago.  And his Spring 2024 collection reiterates the Yamamoto imprint, despite his age.  And as the master designer that he is, with every Paris Fashion Week showing over the many years, Yamamoto has revealed an impressive show piece.  Without slowing down or scaling back collections, he has kept up the pace with his Paris Fashion Week attendance and its busy schedule. 

The precision layering, tweaking of fabrics and inserts of lace, have kept Yamamoto attuned to the sensuality of his Spring 2024 collection.  More so the mystique of the feminine, in reflection of its powerful sexual cues which are honored in subtleness.  His latest collection very much aligns with the trends forming for 2024 which is both the Avant-garde and the carnal, as a backdrop of a world in complete turmoil.  And with no defining counter culture yet to rise to the occasion.  We may indeed be at the 11th hour and it is Yamamoto's use of black as an encompassing void, which can through its nothingness, offer comfort.  Not to be afraid."

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(A.Glass 2023)

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/10/yohji-yamamoto-spring-2024-paris.html