Excerpt: Y-3. Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 


"The dystopian, deconstructed, unpicked and dropped stitching, drapey, raw artisan styles have all but petered out Eight years ago, after a stalwart run with many of the smaller brands that have disappeared from the face of the Earth.  Yet, an Eighteen year run is not bad in all considering that the styles were as an upmarket alternative to punk, which were was deemed Avant-garde.   Devised by Japanese designers Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo who are solely credited for bringing the said looks to the runways of Japan and Paris in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  So, the stygian, Avant-garde styles of the last 47 years, is very much a Japanese affair, which owes less to goth and punk aesthetics, and more tro the retrofitted, old-as-new, science fiction concepts ala Blade Runner (1982), which in turn borrowed heavily from the visualizations of the mid 1970s French adult comic Métal Hurlant, of broken down dystopic cities and the styles we may adorn after the collapse..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/01/y-3-fall-2025-paris-fashion-week.html  

(A.Glass 2025)

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