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

 

"...Yamamoto's latest array was held at the Hotel de ville de Paris, in his slowed down runway showing, with his trademark soundtrack of Japanese jazz fusion, lyrically offering a glimpse into the aging designer's creative thoughts of nostalgia and the relentlessness of time. To which Yamamoto referenced his age to the media in attendance, and that he is rushing against time. Yet his latest collection is far from being rushed, it is at what you expect with from Yamamoto who has been showing his collections for Paris Fashion Week since 1981. And it should be said, that the master doesn't master time, but rather, embodies time. To which Yamamoto may be referring to when he says he is, 'rushing against time'.

Yamamoto over his illustrious career, has experimented with the regimented military look, albeit within his recut and asymmetrical layering, and for his Fall 2025 showing he has reinstated those wartorn combatant styles to his women's collection. With heavy wool and leather insulated looks, and rectangular chain mail tops. Drapey long skirts, boots, masks and encompassing ankle length jackets, the collection offers an unyielding display of toughness, defiance and aggression. Is this Yamamoto's protest song?..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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