Yohji yamamoto illustrations, lined by pen, scanned and colored in ps. Steve mcqueen is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and video artist. Since then, yamamoto developed a dedicated global following, and today his two main lines yohji yamamoto and ys are stocked in highend department stores around the world. Funky fun and fashion forward yohji yamamoto shoes. Choose from 100s of yohji yamamoto pieces at reduced prices. Designers, get ready to get crazy the asia awards is one of the best contests to. Yohji yamamoto was awarded the rank of commander of the order of arts and letters. Yohji yamamoto is the eponymous brand of japanese designer, yohji yamamoto. Range designed for sportmax, womenswear collection focused on one piece pattern cutting and organic open screen print techniques. Jun 2, 2016 yoji yamamoto, yamamoto yoji, born 1943 is an award winning and influential japanese fashion designer based in tokyo and paris.
He has made appearances in movies such as brother 2000, dolls 2002, and yohji yamamoto. He is considered to be a master tailor, alongside those such as madeleine vionnet and is known for his avantgarde tailoring featuring japanese design aesthetics. Yohji yamamoto fall 2014 menswear collection vogue. The book, entitled enigmatically, of course my dear bomb, will be released worldwide in october. Paris, france yohji yamamoto first emerged on the fashion scene in 1981, when he brought his revolutionary design sensibility to paris from tokyo, setting off what would become an aesthetic earthquake. Yohji yamamotos design for asia lifetime achievement. Yohji yamamoto bio, facts, family famous birthdays. Jul 01, 2005 yamamoto can move effortlessly from the task of making a simple white shirt to the complex cutting of an evening dress. He later returned to tokyo with even bigger ideas for his next readytowear line. The title, rather than being a reference to anything atomic, refers to the creative bomb inside yamamoto which explodes with extraordinary bursts of energy, at least four times a year in his catwalk shows in paris, for his eponymous brand and for the y3 collection he does in conjunction with. Yohji yamamoto aw18 installation at yohji yamamoto aoyama, 536 minami aoyama minatoku tokyo on view until october 9 all photographs directed by yohji yamamoto the framed photoworks are all on sale. Ys yohji yamamoto women springsummer and fallwinter. Born in tokyo, yamamoto graduated from keio university with a degree in law in 1966. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as madeleine vionnet, he is known for his avantgarde tailoring featuring japanese design aesthetics yamamoto has won notable awards for his contributions to fashion, including the chevalier of ordre des arts et des lettres, medal.
Judy glickman and readying the publication of his first book. Dec 08, 2017 at the design for asia gala dinner held today in hong kong, japanese fashion giant yohji yamamoto received this years lifetime achievement award. The new book all about yohji yamamoto from 1968 published january 24th, 2014 by bunka publishing bureau, follows his tracks as a designer. Dec 08, 2017 yohji yamamoto receives design for asia lifetime achievement award. He is constructing a new approach to clothing in the postindustrial, late twentieth century world, bringing together the best of both the east and the west.
Eager to express himself under its own name, he goes into the creative. His daughter, limi yamamoto, became a fashion designer. Nick knight is a fashion photographer, filmmaker and director of showstudio. Yoji yamamoto is an award winning and influential japanese fashion designer based in tokyo and paris. Receives two leading fashion awards, the soen award and the endo award 1969 graduates from bunkafukuso gakuin, school of fashion, tokyo 1977. But while most of the media derided them telling the pair to go back to japan the buyers, always looking for something new, yamamoto explains, were enthralled. Aug 02, 2016 the woolmark company visits the atelier of renowned japanese designer yohji yamamoto to discover what makes him tick, as told through polaroid photographs. Wim wenders is a filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. Yohji yamamoto was born in yokohama, japan in 1943 making him 69 this year. Ever since the first presentation of his brand yohji yamamoto in 1981 during paris fashion week, each collection is greeted by the world with great uproar and.
Apr 25, 20 yohji yamamoto athleticism is rarely a quality praised, or even acknowledged, in fashion. Yohji yamamoto receives design for asia lifetime achievement. Amongst the worlds most influential and visionary photographers, knight has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is feted for his groundbreaking creative collaborations with leading designers including yohji yamamoto, john galliano and alexander. Yohji yamamoto bio, single, ethnicity married biography. Yamamoto has won notable awards for his contributions to fashion, including. Over the course of his 40year career, yohji yamamotos innovative designs and mysterious nature have propelled him to the highest rank. Yohji yamamotos design for asia lifetime achievement award. He is recognized as a master in ultramodern tailoring alongside those like madelein vionnet. Sport max design project for max mara fashion award 2015 winner. Yohji yamamoto the visionary designer takes his nissan cedric for a spin around tokyo it is a moment when i can become myself, says fashions enduring radicalist yohji yamomoto of his daily ritual. Apr 02, 2020 yohji founded yohji yamamoto fund for peace in 2008. Yohji yamamoto bof 500 the people shaping the global. Yohji yamamoto is known for the avantgarde spirit of his clothing.
Since then, the designer has become renowned for his avantgarde tailoring, featuring oversized silhouettes and a restricted, dark palette the only son of a war widow, yamamoto was born. A design project on designing an aw 12 collection for yohji yamamoto, over a 10 week period. Yohji yamamoto on sale for women shop sale up to 50% off. Yamamoto s freespirited world is explored here via id magazines archives starting back in the 1980s, including his adoration for women and the female form, the painful process of creating antifashion through fashion and how his timeless utilitarian designs can be both avantgarde and classic at once. Eager to express himself under its own name, he goes into the creative adventure by setting up his company ys company ltd. The most beautiful books in the world 2002, leipzig book fair for. He debuted his womenswear in paris in 1981, with dramatic runway shows that furthered his reputation as an avantgarde visionary although he prefers the title of dressmaker for its humble significance. Since 2014, he designs third kits for the football club real madrid.
Yohji yamamoto is a tailor and influential fashion designer based out of tokyo and paris. We are pleased to announce that our designer yohji yamamoto have received the dfa lifetime achievement award. See more ideas about yamamoto, yohji yamamoto and yoji yamamoto. Each print will be an unique piece, executed with the technique of platinum printing. Yohjis freespirited world is explored here via id magazines archives, including his adoration for women and the female form, the painful process of creating antifashion through fashion and how his timeless utilitarian designs can be both avantgarde and classic at once. His most commercially successful line is yohji yamamoto mens and womens and ys. Yohji yamamoto embraces pattern the new york times. Yohji yamamoto six seven photographic sam lambert and shaka maidoh founded the acf in order to circulate. Yohji founded yohji yamamoto fund for peace in 2008. Yohji yamamotos mens collections arrived in paris in 1981, after the tokyo designer launched his namesake line in 1976. Young designer opportunities, plus new lines for older brands the. Yohji yamamoto launched his eponymous line in tokyo in 1976, with the idea of creating mens coats that could cover and protect a woman. Another esteemed award he earned was commandeur of ordre des arts et des lettres. All about yohji yamamoto from 1968 published january 24th, 2014 by.
Yohji yamamoto fall 2014 readytowear collection vogue. The avantgarde style of fashion that is so typical of yamamoto clothing, is clearly reflected in yohji yamamoto shoes. He debuted his womenswear in paris in 1981, with dramatic runway shows that furthered his reputation as an avantgarde visionary although he prefers the title of dressmaker for its. A new book from rizzoli celebrates the amazing career of yohji. Nov 11, 2014 yohji yamamoto is an award winning japanese fashion designer based in tokyo and paris. It places yamamotos work in context and includes an insightful interview with yamamoto as well as a round table discussion with some of his key collaborators. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as madeleine vionnet, he is known for his avantgarde tailoring featuring japanese design aesthetics. See more ideas about yohji yamamoto, yamamoto and fashion invitation.
See more ideas about japanese fashion designers, yohji yamamoto, yamamoto. Book cover design, book design, print layout, yohji yamamoto, typography poster. Yohji yamamoto receives design for asia lifetime achievement award. Yohji yamamoto, yamamoto yoji, born 1943 is a japanese fashion designer based in tokyo and paris. Born in 1943, yohji yamamoto graduates from keio university in 1966 and receives two leading fashion awards in japan, the soen award and the endo award in 1969. Dfa lifetime achievement award dfa laa the award recognises an individual who has made lifelong contributions to the design profession, with visionary shaping designs across a variety of fields, and who uses design to educate and promote wider use of design in society. Inside yohji yamamotos fashion philosophy video bof. His signature oversized silhouettes in black often feature drapery in varying textures. Romantic fall layering photographed in the foothills of the carpathian mountains, dark wools, a knit shawl and other pieces inspired by. He worked as a costume designer on takeshi kitanos 2012 film beyond outrage. This book features carefully selected, reedited articles from soen, high fashion and mr the 3 fashion magazines from bunka publishing bureau which have done numerous interviews and closeups on. Award winning japanese fashion designer, yohji yamamoto, is known for his innovation and extraordinarily unique creativity.
But it is also one that is hard to dismiss in a designer like yohji yamamoto, who once concluded a runway show with a martialarts demonstration in which he appeared to karatechop a male model. Yohji yamamoto is a japanese fashion designer based in tokyo and paris. The most prestigious awards he has received for his contributions to the industry of fashion are medal of honor with purple ribbon, commandeur of ordre des arts des lettres, the ordre national du merite, the. His unstructured suits defined the menswear silhouettes of the 80s and 90s, and his dramatic runway shows contributed to a growing reputation as an avantgarde designer though he prefers the title of dressmaker despite its humble connotations. Mar 07, 2011 yohji yamamoto is one of fashions continual innovators and this stunning book is a fascinating insight into his working approach and relationships with other creative practitioners. Sport max design project for max mara fashion award 2015 winner of max mara fashion award 2015. Born in 1943, yoji yamamoto is an influential and award winning fashion designer from japan. He won a competition to travel to paris in which he spent nine months attempting to sell his fashion sketches to designers and magazines but failed to sell even one. Since the early 80s, yohji yamamotos groundbreaking silhouettes and innov. Yamamoto seemed to be exploring his japanese roots and using patterns more likely to be found.
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