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

 

"...Yamamoto turns 82 this year and continues on with the Paris Fashion Weeks as he has done over the last 40 years, with his signature label, and also the Y's which is exclusively a women's collection, with Y-3 being Yamamoto's early 2000s street/sports goth wear, utility and mountaineering (a trend that came and went in 2017, 2018) fusion.  Settling it back to his more basic draped looks, whilst maintaining the avant-garde sneakers styles, and there is no doubt Y-3 is aimed at a younger market, and a new generation of back dated 20 year olds.  And in a paradoxical way, whilst we are all aging, Yamamoto has matured and added a masterful fixture to the Y-3 brand, maybe even slowing it down within the conglomerate world of chasing new markets.

For the latest Y-3 ensemble, it was held at the Palais Brongniart convention centre, built by Napoleon in the early 19th Century, and once the Paris Stock Exchange,  Yamamoto, this time, has compressed and downsized his showing for his Y-3 Spring 2026 collection, no flashy runway, or theatrical imprint to rouse the youth, rather it was the Kianí Del Valle dance group, adporened in Y-3's draped, dark and flowing styles, rhythmically dancing within, as mentioned, a relatively confined space..."

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(A.Glass 2025)

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