Tagged Yohji Yamamoto

CELEBRATING the 20th anniversary of Fashion in Motion, the V&A will be hosting a landmark presentation by Chinese couturier Guo Pei in the museum’s Raphael Gallery. Famed for designing Rihanna’s yellow gown...

PFW SS20: Yohji Yamamoto

Mirabella Shahidullah

September 30, 2019

“I WAS born to be poetic,” Yohji Yamamoto told one journalist after his SS20 show at Paris Fashion Week. True to his word, the collection was as enchantingly poetic as possible, one which interweaved both the s...

PFW AW18: Yohji Yamamoto

Todd Burns

March 3, 2018

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IN TRUE Yohji Yamamoto style, he presented another all-black collection for PFW AW18. Taking inspiration from the cubist art movement for silhouettes, the collection pays homage to renowned couturier and person...

PFW AW17: Yohji Yamamoto

March 6, 2017

LONG-KNOWN as a technically pioneering tailor, Yohji Yamamoto opted to bring operatic drama and, dare we say, romance, to AW17. Averting himself from the austerity chic that is usually at the core of his collec...

PFW SS17: Yohji Yamamoto

October 4, 2016

YOHJI Yamamoto put on another touchingly beautiful display of the clarity he finds working so well with a dark colour palette. Deep tones transcending colour choice were detectable in the serious way Yamamoto w...

Jean-Paul Goude and Antonio Lopez, Maternity dres for Grace Jones, 1979

Stylish revolt – how post-modernism broke with the past by borrowing from it

October 16, 2015

Archive, Art, Feature

A Stylish Revolt – Post-modernism broke with the past by borrowing from it in irreverent ways. Peter Yeoh discusses the movement’s legacy with some of its most celebrated artists and design historian Glenn ...

The Glass library

Nicola Kavanagh

September 9, 2015

Books, Feature

“When we arrived in Paris, Rei Kawakubo and I, we weren’t completely aware of what we were doing” – Yohji Yamamoto. And so it started: yet another remarkable chapter in the life of this humblest of...

The passion of Tomas

August 25, 2015

Culture, Fashion, Feature, Glass Design, News

Fashion is not all glitz and glamour. While its primary concern is to give us a veneer of beauty, fashion has real power for good. Beyond the runway, it can influence society, if it wants to, and fashion conglo...

The artful dresser

July 16, 2015

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

At an art opening, a man gets to shed his work uniform and wear groovy clothes, and, for a few hours, behaves like an iconoclast in the splendour of a museum or gallery. There he flaunts his bold sartorial st...

New Model Army – Glass meets Klara B

Justin van Vliet

May 19, 2015

Feature, Glass Models, Photography

Name: Klara B Nationality: French Age: 20 Agency: Profile Model Management How did you become a model? I was spotted on Facebook by a French photographer who introduced ...

Creating the image of Yohji …

Glass Archive

May 8, 2015

News

Glass speaks to Marc Ascoli, who, by inviting young and often little-known photographers of the time such as Koto Bolofo, Nick Knight, Max Vadukul and Paolo Roversi, to shoot for Yohji Yamamoto, revolutioni...

Contrarian couturier

March 27, 2015

Archive, Culture, Culture of Commerce, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Feature, Glass Talents

Yohji Yamamoto, whose clothing designs revolutionised the sartorial codes of the late 20th century, reveals to Peter Yeoh his views on how intelligent fashion can transcend sexuality, cultural boundar...

Paris Menswear AW15: Yohji Yamamoto

January 23, 2015

News

Even the bruised, battered and scarred faces of Yamamoto’s brooding men didn’t deflect any attention away from the mastery of his oily black tailoring and for any designer, that is quite a feat. This season in ...

Immortal intrigue: UMASAN

February 6, 2014

News

There is always something admirable, and indeed honourable, when such forthright defiance has its take on current fashion, and in Berlin, since 2010, a certain murmuring has been heard on the au courant streets...

The contrarian couturier