Excerpt: Yohji Yamamoto. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

"...So, it can be said that Yamamoto's legacy now, and what will be later, will never be matched again.  And these occurrences of creativity which last the distance, are rare.  Particularly the over reliance of being famed by one's own artist endeavours.  As we all enter that peak of inundation of the last Two decades, of not just the fashion industry, but generally within our society.  Yamamoto to me, and I mean this with the utmost respect, represents that mastery is forever, the biology is not.  And as Eastern religious/philosophical teachings implores you to understand, all must in the end, face the funeral pyre.

And this should not be seen as a fatalistic cue, and in Yamamoto case, he has decided to stay the course till the end.  With no signs of handing the reins to a successor at this point in time, or reducing the amount of showings at the yearly Paris Fashion Weeks.   Age certainly has not slowed down the 81 year old Fashion designer, and even though I have seen recently a sombre, and in some showings a slower and conclusive element to his runway presentations.  Yamamoto appears to be carrying on..."

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

(A.Glass 2024)