Excerpt: Yohji Yamamoto. Spring 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"...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.

Yamamoto's latest array does indeed have a lot more recut, and redrawn aspects to the styles on show.  With a mixing and matching of prints, in their ad hoc asymmetrical cuts, reflecting a youthful rebellion, ala the late 1970s and the late Vivienne Westwood, who passed away in 2022, mirroring her 1977 "Seditionaries" collection which assisted in spawning the punk-esque tartan, and its offcut styles.  And I do feel that it is fine to romanticize youthful rebelliousness of yesteryear, as it has been truly missed for so many decades, particularly early punk rock. 

Yohji Yamamoto's Spring 2025 collection, offers that nostalgic snapshot."

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

(A.Glass 2024)