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

 

"...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.  

Fashion mirrors popular culture, with societal trends and events setting the mold.  And it is, paradoxically, our desires to homogenize our individualism, is where exclusivity via clothing holds a significance materialistically.  Yamamoto and Karakubo are now in their Eighties, so if you are curious on how the 2000 to 2018 revival of the 'black', raw looks evolved from, refer to Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons "Holes" and "Patchwork and X" collections of 1982 and 1983.

And you may ask; how does Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas collaboration Y-3 fit into this timeline?  As what could be deemed an unholy alliance between 40 years of raw, dark, artisan styles fused to 20 years of sportswear.  Well, Y-3 begun in 2003, and I started reviewing the collaboration over Ten years ago, so it very much falls into the heyday of the revival of the Avant-garde of the early 2000s..."

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

(A.Glass 2025)