Excerpt: Yohji Yamamoto. Spring/Summer 2026 - Paris Fashion Week
"...clothing looking wore torn with their brushstroke 'wounds' makeup, the youth, more so this current generation of 20 year olds, could be the ones, in all of its hopefulness without expectation, will bring in the long overdue, and renewed counterculture, at least attempt to challenge the rigidity and oppressiveness of a Fascist leaning world.
And in saying that, the stylised, exclusivity of Yamamoto's avant garde appears more evident with this collection as does the tribute to Giorgio Armani, with Zen like tategaki Kanji/Kana text on two of the dresses, the first, early in the collection, saying, "Reverse form, my own thing”, and the final outfit, which closed the show said, “Formless are sound, taste, and human striving; Offer fragrant flowers in reverence.” Thus, was the use of red fabrics fused onto the last array of his stygian, draped outfits, aligning with Yamamoto's passion, despite the mourning, that being, a cleansing fire, which is the pulse of life, beneath the loss. As Yamamoto, at the end of the collection, gave his deepest and most respectfully bow, removing his trademark hat."
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(A.Glass 2025)
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