Excerpt: Yohji Yamamoto. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 "...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. 

For his Spring 2025 collection, even though it seems less darker and gothic, although the aesthetics that defined Yamamoto over the years are clearly evident.  This collection feels more youthful, and his words "playful", saying that he wanted it to have a childlike creativeness.  But, the master is not a child, but rather admires the open mind of the child.  As it is a mind that begins, rather than an expert mind, that believes, mostly with arrogance, that it has reached the limit of knowledge.  Clearly, as we stand now, amidst a world in absolute turmoil, the human race, with all our intelligence, has not..."

___

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

(A.Glass 2024)