excerpt: Yohji Yamamoto. women's Fall 2025 - Paris Fashion Week.

"I am deuteranopia colour blind, so I cannot distinguish between purple and blue with other colours, however colorblind people can see details very well, so when purple is set against black, the light absorbing base, it brings out the purple, and many other details that Yohji Yamamoto for his Fall 2025 collection can muster, including for his latest collection the use of purple known as 'murasaki' (紫) in Japan.  And who could mistake the impact that Yamamoto had on the Fashion industry after 47 years, when he and partner at the time, the iconic Rei Kawakubo descended on Paris from Japan in the early 1980s and introduced black as a redefined, drapey, linen and fine wool affair, which decades later represented on the runways of Paris, the new Avant-garde.  To which the Fashion press at the time of Kawakubo and Yamamoto's 1981 debut collection, titled their groundbreaking styles in a derogatory manner as "Hiroshima Chic", yet after four decades later the 81 year old Yamamoto is still standing, and maintaining those very same signature styles..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/03/yohji-yamamoto-womens-fall-2025-paris.html