The Originals: Yohji Yamamoto
“Why did you want to interview me this time?” So begins a rare sitdown with Yohji Yamamoto. From one of the fashion great of our times, the question isn’t posturing — it’s genuine curiosity from someone whose lifelong North Star is the pursuit of the new and interesting. Plus, as far as the 81-year-old designer is concerned, he has said plenty already over the course of a career five decades long and counting. It’s his designs that have done most of the talking, a conversation that spans collections for women and men, the 23-year-old Y-3 collaboration with Adidas plus a galaxy of lines under his eponymous company’s umbrella. Yohji Yamamoto Kuba Dabrowski for WWD The Tokyo-based designer has been busy carving a singular track that started in 1972 under the Y’s moniker. Contrary to the fashions of that era, what he offered was somber menswear-inflected looks that enveloped the female form in soft architectures of fabric. It became the founding act of his upheaval of the female silhouette that would ripple through the decades since. It netted him a cult following in Japan from his first show in 1977 and was amplified globally with his debut in Paris in 1981, an era that also saw the arrival ofFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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