Ivwri
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Love Yohji's work?
Curious about it?
Think it might work for you but scared to take the plunge?
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Inspired by _yoo's post over on RFT about the need for more designer specific threads, I have decided to take the plunge and create a designer thread dedicated to my own favourite designer. I know Yohji is not one of the more popular designers on here, but maybe this thread can help a little bit with that. Please feel free to add information, images, interview excerpts or ask questions. Everything Yohji should hopefully go here.
Asobu where are you??
Anyway, some information:
Yohji Yamamoto currently has 6 main lines. Yohji Yamamoto (women's line), Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme (men's line), Y's (women's diffusion label), Y-3 (adidas collabo), Yohji Yamamoto +NOIR and S'yte (online-only T-shirt and accessories line).
Legacy Lines include Y's for Men, Yohji Yamamoto Costume D'Homme and COMING SOON.
Main website
Y-3
s'yte
Voguepedia entry for Yohji. (Thanks for suggestion pickpackpockpuck)
Design aesthetic and philosophy.
Yohji is known primarily for his baggy/loose/unstructured/anti-fit silhouettes cast in flowing black wool gabardine fabrics and elements of androgyny in his work. He is also known for asymmetry, distressed finishes and textures, raw seams, intentionally disheveled looking clothes and using traditional Japanese textile techniques (dyeing, wrapping and embroidery) and creating clothing that envelopes the wearer like loose fitting armor.
As a fashion designer, Yohji Yamamoto generally exists outside trends and creates clothes that are inspired by his homeland, Japan, as well as multiple cultures around the world. If he could be said to have a unifying theme throughout all his work, it could be that he attempts to design clothes that have already aged even before being worn. Clothing that wraps around the body in the same way that one's favourite sweater or jacket does after years of use. A familiarity that brings with it a coziness and security that cannot be found in brand new clothing that has just been picked up off the rack. To protect the wearer and his/her identity from prying eyes. Or to project this identity from the comfort of a familiar and comfortable fort.
Yohji's clothing may seem difficult to wear and acquire, but paradoxically, they are made for the everyman and everywoman. Clothing that can be thrown on without a care in the world and without concessions to what is in vogue today or was in style yesterday. The Yohji man should know that he is not perfect and most likely, never will be. And that's okay. It is with this arrogance and humility that one wears Yohji Yamamoto's clothes.
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Some Yohji collaborations
Dr. Martens x Yohji Yamamoto
Mandarina Duck x Yohji Yamamoto
Hermes x Yohji Yamamoto
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Yohji on film and stage
Notebook on Cities & Clothes (directed by Wim Wenders)
costuming for "Brother" (directed by Takeshi "Beat" Kitano)
costuming for "Dolls" (directed by Takeshi "Beat" Kitano)
costuming for Tristan und Isolde (directed by Heiner Muller)
costuming for Elton John's "The Red Piano"
This is My Dream (directed by Theodore Stanley)
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Online stockists
Atelier New York
Barneys
Farfetch
Forward Forward by Revolve
Hervia Bazaar
Ikkon
Just One Eye & Just One Eye Accessories (Thanks for the links _yoo!)
Lazzari Online Store (seems to be accesories only at the moment, and they stock Y'x Mandarina Duck collabo stuff, but you never know)
LN-CC
Penelope (also online as Public Store Five)
Rakuten
Wrong Weather (solid selection of Y's clothing and shoes on deep discount. Not sure if stock will be updated with new season and/or mainline pieces though)
Yoox
Auction Sites
Yahoo Japan auctions
eBay
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Codes for various seasons.
HB -- SS 95, SS 00, AW 06, SS12
HC -- SS 99, AW10
HE -- AW 95, SS 02, AW 08
HF -- SS 96
HG -- AW 96
HI -- AW 97
** -- SS 98, AW 04, SS 10
HM -- AW 02, SS 08
HN -- AW 99, AW 05
HO - SS 93, SS 11
HP - AW 93, AW 11
HQ -- SS 03
HR -- SS 06
HS -- AW92
HT -- SS 94, AW 00, SS 07
HU -- SS97, AW 03
HV -- AW 94, AW 01, SS 09
HX -- SS 01, AW 07
HY -- AW 98, SS 05
HZ -- SS 04, AW 09
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Sizing advice
Please bear in mind that the sizing information below is strictly a guide and that as always, getting measurements or trying on the items themselves is the only way to know with any sort of accuracy whether a piece is going to work for you.
Asobu on Yohji sizing -
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My Dear Bomb Preview PDF
Yohji Yamamoto - Processes and techniques via V&A
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RECENT EDIT (23/06/2012) - List of Runway photos and videos posted in the thread listed here for easier browsing.
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