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YOHJI YAMAMOTO FALL 2025 READY-TO-WEAR RUNWAY, FASHION SHOW & COLLECTION REVIEW [PHOTOS]
Y-3 PRESENTS FALL WINTER 2026 IN PARIS YOHJI YAMAMOTO AND ADIDAS REDEFINE THE UNIFORM OF THE CITY THROUGH MOTION AND SPEED | FASHION | FASHION HEADLINE
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“MORE THAN A FEW IN THE AUDIENCE WEPT.”
“INDEBTED TO ESTABLISHED NOTIONS OF FORMALITY AND TO MASCULINE AND FEMININE DRESS CODES, FROM CRINOLINES AND CORSETS TO THE PERFECT TROUSER SUIT, IF LITERALLY TAKEN APART AT THE SEAMS – IT WAS TECHNICALLY ACCOMPLISHED AS IT WAS MOVING.”
“ONE SEASON LATER AND A BROADER AND GENTLY REVOLUTIONARY TAKE ON MID-20TH-CENTURY FRENCH FASHIO TO HIS RUNWAY, SHOWCASING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, HIS MASTERFUL CUT.”
“OTHER DESIGNERS CAME TO PAY HOMAGE – ALEXANDER MCQUEEN WAS IN THE AUDIENCE OF THAT AUTUMN/WIN 1999 SHOW.”
“YET SHE, LIKE MANY, FELT AN AFFINITY WITH YOHJI.”
“A YEAR EARLIER, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD APPEARED ON HIS CATWALK, AN EXCEPTIONAL OUTING – SHE ONLY EVER OTHERWISE MODELLED FOR HER OWN-NAME COLLECTIONS.”
“SPEAKING TO THIS MAGAZINE IN 2018, WESTWOOD SAID, ‘IF YOU’RE A GOOD DESIGNER YOU APPRECIATE AND LO WORK OF ANOTHER GOOD DESIGNER, BECAUSE THEY DO SOMETHING YOU DON’T DO AND THAT’S WHAT YOU REALLY ABOUT IT YOHJI’S WORK IS A LOOK AND A BIG IDEA I LOVE YOHJI ’”
“AS THE MILLENNIUM DAWNED THERE CAME A FAIRLY RADICAL ABOUT-TURN.”
“REACTING TO HIS OWN EXTRAORDINARY RECENT OUTPUT, YOHJI FELT HE HAD COME TOO FAR FROM THE REALIT BOTH HIS NATIVE TOKYO AND ADOPTIVE PARIS.”
“WHILE MANY BELIEVE THAT HIS COLLABORATION WITH THE SPORTSWEAR GIANT ADIDAS BEGAN WHEN Y-3 WAS SHOWN FOR THE SPRING/SUMMER 2003 SEASON, IN FACT THE YOHJI YAMAMOTO AUTUMN/WINTER 2001 COLLEC MARKED THE START.”
“IT WAS THERE IN TRAINERS MADE WITH ADIDAS, IN BOXING BOOTS ALSO CREATED WITH THAT NAME, AND IN TH CLOTHES.”
“THE THREE WHITE STRIPES APPEARED ACROSS EVERYTHING FROM BOMBER JACKETS AND MEN’S SHIRTING TO F SKIRTS, ALL ILLUSTRATING YOHJI’S SINGULAR, ASYMMETRIC, DRAPED SILHOUETTE, THEIR GO-FASTER CLARITY M ALL THE MORE APPARENT IN A STARK COLOUR SPECTRUM OF BLACK (ALWAYS), NAVY, WHITE.”
“THEY ARE AS UNIVERSAL AS YOHJI’S CLOTHES ARE SINGULAR, AND REMAIN THE WARDROBE OF A LOYAL AND HIG SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE.”
“THE TENSION BETWEEN THOSE TWO EXTREMES WAS DYNAMIC, LIFE-AFFIRMING – NEW.”
“NO ONE KNEW AT THE TIME THAT THIS ONE COLLECTION WOULD LAY THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE MOST LONGLASTING AND WIDELY RESPECTED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FASHION AND SPORTSWEAR OF ALL ”
“BUT Y-3 WAS THE FIRST, THE GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF THEM ALL, BORN OF A DESIGNER’S CREATIVE RESPONSE WORLD AND AN ESPECIALLY OPEN-MINDED CORPORATE GIANT’S EMBRACE OF THAT MINDSET.”
“YOHJI’S CONTRIBUTION TO FASHION IS UNQUESTIONABLE ”
“A REVERED NAME ON THE PARIS SCHEDULE, HIS COLLECTIONS CONTINUE AND IN THEIR OWN BEAUTIFUL WAY, CONTINUE TO EVOLVE ”
“AND THE CONVERSATION WITH ADIDAS EVOLVES ALONGSIDE.”
“SINCE THEN, SUCH PARTNERSHIPS HAVE BECOME ALMOST AS UNIVERSAL AS THOSE THREE STRIPES – A VERY LUC PART OF OUR WORLD.”
“MORE THAN 20 YEARS LATER, Y-3 HAS ITS OWN IDENTITY, SEPARATE FROM THE DESIGNER’S YET INFORMED BY H VALUES.”
1“YOHJI YAMAMOTO: THE POET IN BLACK & THE BIRTH OF ANTI FASHION” KEY IDEAS FROM THIS ARTICLE
YOHJI’S WORK IS ROOTED IN LOSS, RESTRAINT, AND QUIET RESISTANCE. CLOTHING AS PROTECTION, SHAPED BY HIS MOTHER’S DRESSMAKING AND POST WAR TRAUMA. BLACK AS A CREATIVE UNIVERSE: ARCHITECTURAL, CINEMATIC, POLITICAL. YOHJI AS SOMEONE WHO “TRIES TO PROTECT PEOPLE WITH CLOTHING.”
“YOHJI YAMAMOTO: DECONSTRUCTION, DARKNESS & DESIGN PHILOSOPHY”
KEY IDEAS FROM THIS ARTICLE
YOHJI DESIGNS TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM THE GAZE AND THE COLD. BLACK AS A COLOUR OF PEACE, SIMPLICITY, AND BOUNDARIES. MINIMALISM AS DEPTH, NOT ABSENCE.
OVERSIZED SILHOUETTES MEANT TO FREE THE BODY, NOT DISPLAY IT. YOHJI’S SUBVERSION IS QUIET, POETIC, AND EMOTIONAL.