Y-3/ Spring/Summer 2027 - Paris Fashion Week

Yohji Yamamoto's eternal youthful fixture, or at least that wanton perpetuation of being in your 20s, resonates from his collaboration with Adidas, thus forming his Y-3 template.  And 14 years ago, I wrote my first review of Yamamoto's Spring 2014 Y-3 showing in Manhattan, New York City, aware of the aging Japanese designer's wrangling with time, to which holds a relentless weight onto the human condition, affecting us all.  No one can escape it, if one is to see it fatalistically as a enclosed standard, or curse of human awareness. The models which walked the show in 2014, would now be in their late 30s to early 40s, when grey hair and baldness, for men, begins to eventuate.  But, does youthful or exuberant expression have to cease?   

Yamamoto's Y-3 is a gothic tinged sport version of his own signature label, and with Paris, like the rest of Europe enduring one of the worst heatwave's on record, and it is Trumpist fascism now been written into global policy, particularly revoking Climate Change protocols, with the bizarre hope that the silicon valley Techno-fascists will someone work out a Plan B for us all, as the "Green" scare is systematically being  removed from public responsibility, replaced by unrestrained economic expansion; which is now the order of the day.  Yamamoto's models, in its similarly to the masochistic reflections of the Rick Owens Spring 2027 showing, danced in full laden, black clad attire, with the audience in attendance sitting on football bleachers . All the while a heatwave is sucking up precious water resources across Europe. 

Also seen with this awkward runway spectacle, are the somewhat matured looking models (the 20 year olds, appear to have aged for this showing) adorning an extra collaboration with the Yamamoto/Adidas two way, being Takahiro Miyashita, of "The Soloist" brand, and also known for  "Number (N)ine" sub-brand.  So, the experimental goth, avant-garde street wears stay in tune to the Y-3 legacy, while the conglomerate  Adidas Three Stripe logo is decreased, somewhat.  Which can't be said for Rick Owens recent collab with Adidas, with stripes everywhere.

Remember, corporatism is capitalisms, extra potent evil twin.

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(A.Glass 2026)