EXCERPT: YOHJI YAMAMOTO. FALL 2024 RTW - PARIS FASHION WEEK

"...How does one define a closure or ending?  As the late French philosopher Albert Camus decreed, that the actor is the absurd man, and death comes at the end of every stage show or play.  He/She lives in the moment in all of its totality, and when the curtain falls, they die.  Is this the same for a fashion designer?  

Yamamoto's tenure of over 40 years as fashion design, is undoubtedly a fixture that assisted in the so called reemergence of the avant-garde trend which occurred in the early to mid 2000s.  And in 2024, this trend has since petered out, with only a handful of designers left.   Owing so much to Yamamoto's all black, gothic stylizations and their artesian appeal of linen, wool blends and leather.  That first graced the runways of Paris in the late 1970s,  pieced together within its drapey, unpicked stitching and worn looks.  Yamamoto's enduring impression remains..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/03/yohji-yamamoto-fall-2024-rtw-paris.html

(A.Glass 2024)