Excerpt: Y-3. Spring 2026 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"My first Y-3 fashion review was the Spring 2014 showing at New York Fashion Week 12 years ago, in midtown Manhattan, in a gallery styled factory space, with a slew of very young celebrities attending at the time, with the likes of professional snowboarder Helen Schettini, now a mother, Justin Bieber, before the tattoos and controversy, and now a father.   And the 20 something models that walked the show are now in their mid 30s, all within the context of the Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto collaboration, which as I have noted over the last decade, holds, albeit subtle and slightly tenuous degree, a kind of push and pull with the Adidas 'Three Stripe' logo and Yamamoto signature brand name, overlaid by his avant-garde drapey Japanese styles.  Which of course had morphed from his imprint on the fashion world in 1977, when he debuted his runway show in Tokyo, Japan, thereafter descended on Paris with his partner at the time Rei Kawakubo (of Comme des Garçons fame). Both of them essentially redefining 1960s and 1970s modernism, and inscribing onto the runways those black, dystopian anime conceptual, avant-garde styles that we know and love today..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/y-3-spring-2026-paris-fashion-week.html