Excerpt: Yohji Yamamoto. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"The aging master Yohji Yamamoto, maintains his consistency with over Four decades of showing at Paris Fashion Week.  A testament to his enduring skills as the most reconsible of Japanese Fashion designer's, showcasing his defined originality as a stalwart fixture, that Yamamoto himself undoubtedly holds as a connection to his beloved Paris.  And of the many reviews that I have done over the last Ten years of Yamamoto's shows, while witnessing the rise and subsequent fall of the Avant-garde fashion trend that occured in the early 2000s, which ended with a whimper in 2018.  Be it those raw stylizations, unpicked stitching, drapey linen, distressed leathers and all black gothic inclinations.  Yamamoto already had over Three decades of the said styles under his belt, and was one of the key originators of the look in the late 1970s.  So longevity, sans fate, was always going to be template for Yamamoto.  Overriding the many defunct imitators over the years, that were pale in comparison to the master of the Avant-garde..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/10/yohji-yamamoto-spring-2025-parish.html 

(A.Glass 2024)