Yohji Yamamoto, Spring/Summer 2009
Yohji Yamamoto’s designs are more akin to sculpture than fashion. Working with fabric, cleverly draped and cut with complexity, his main themes are always androgyny and asymmetry. The Tokyo-based designer launched his label in 1977 and came to Paris in 1981 with the first wave of Japanese fashion, showing not so much a presentation as a confrontation, so radical was it. He now also has a successful sportswear line, Y3, in collaboration with Adidas.




