YOHJI YAMAMOTO

DORA YANGHNC3O

simple but sophisticated.

Born 3 October, 1943 at Tokyo, Japan.

Born 3 October, 1943 at Tokyo, Japan.

Based in Tokyo and Paris.

Born 3 October, 1943 at Tokyo, Japan.

Based in Tokyo and Paris.

Principle lines: -Yohji Yamamoto -Y’s -COMING SOON

Style Yamamoto is

known for his avant-garde spirit in his clothing.

His signature oversized oversized silhouettes in silhouettes in blackblack usually feature drapery in varying textures.

Full-Length Jumpsuit.

Style Yamamoto is

known for his avant-garde spirit in his clothing.

His signature oversized oversized silhouettes in silhouettes in blackblack usually feature drapery in varying textures.

Full-Length Jumpsuit.

2011 Fall Paris Fashion Week

Style Yamamoto is

known for his avant-garde spirit in his clothing.

His signature oversized oversized silhouettes in silhouettes in blackblack usually feature drapery in varying textures.

Full-Length Jumpsuit.

2011 Fall Paris Fashion Week

Tweed Shawl Stole

Time period: 1972 - present

Y’s joint stock corporation was founded in 1972.

Yamamoto officially debuted in 1977, presenting his first collection.

He became an influential designer after making his pret a porter debut in Paris in 1981.

Materials 'Fabric is everything.

Often I tell my pattern makers, "Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something."' - Yohji Yamamoto

Materials 'Fabric is everything.

Often I tell my pattern makers, "Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something."' - Yohji Yamamoto

Yamamoto handling fabrics at the V&A Museum in London 2011

Materials

All his fabrics are made in Japan to his own specifications, making them unique to his designs.

His custom-made textiles use a variety of common weaves and traditional Japanese techniques such as the Shibori and Yuzen .

'Fabric is everything. Often I tell my pattern makers, "Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something."' - Yohji Yamamoto

Yamamoto handling fabrics at the V&A Museum in London 2011

Materials

All his fabrics are made in Japan to his own specifications, making them unique to his designs.

His custom-made textiles use a variety of common weaves and traditional Japanese techniques such as the Shibori and Yuzen .

'Fabric is everything. Often I tell my pattern makers, "Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something."' - Yohji Yamamoto

Yamamoto handling fabrics at the V&A Museum in London 2011

Yamamoto often uses embroidery, particularly for menswear designs. These intricate decorations contribute to Yamamoto’s underlying desire to subvert people’s perception of what men and women should wear.

Price range Because of the intensive and expensive

ways of producing fabrics for his garments, the prices of his designer clothes are quite expensive.

$300 - $700 is the average price for most of his ready-to-wear garments.

A pair of Adidas Y-3 by Yohji Yamamoto have prices ranging from $200 - $600 or more.

Design Philosophy Yamamoto’s garments

seemed to distill the traditional Japanese design philosophy that values the asymmetry and irregularities of nature over the artificial. He thinks ‘perfection is ugly,’ and symmetry ‘not sufficiently human’ and wants to see ‘scars, failure, disorder, distortion’ in the things people make.

Design Philosophy Yamamoto’s garments

seemed to distill the traditional Japanese design philosophy that values the asymmetry and irregularities of nature over the artificial. He thinks ‘perfection is ugly,’ and symmetry ‘not sufficiently human’ and wants to see ‘scars, failure, disorder, distortion’ in the things people make.2011 Fall Paris

Fashion Week

Yamamoto’s asymmetric tuxedo wool jacket

People

Yamamoto have a wide range of customers. Usually though, his customers are in the middle to higher class.

He is highly popular in Japan.

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s wife, wore a lot of Yohji Yamamoto’s clothes and she was an influential person in style. (*She worked for Calvin Klein)

“People wear my clothes to make a statement.”

People

Yamamoto have a wide range of customers. Usually though, his customers are in the middle to higher class.

He is highly popular in Japan.

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s wife, wore a lot of Yohji Yamamoto’s clothes and she was an influential person in style. (*She worked for Calvin Klein)

“People wear my clothes to make a statement.”

Kristen Stewart

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her husband

Recognition

Yamamoto became internationally renowned in the early eighties for challenging traditional notions of fashion.

He is not especially popular but very much recognized for his creativity and daring designs in the world of fashion and arts.

Impact In the early eighties, Japanese designers, Issey

Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, and Yohji Yamamoto, used colour paranoid, and asymmetric structure at the Paris Fashion Week and they caught people’s eyes immediately.

Yamamoto changed both the fashion silhouette and the body vs. clothing relationship.

“In my philosophy, the word androgyny doen’t have any meaning. I think there is no difference between men and women. We are different in body, but sense, spirit, and soul are the same.”

2011 Fall Paris Fashion Week

Puzzle dress