Yohji Yamamoto

By By JOSHUA DAVID STEIN This season Y-3, the collaborative line between Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas, released a low-top boxing boot, which I decided to put to the test at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn.

Click to view more photos. Yohji Yamamoto, like Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garcons and Martin Margiela, is one of those few futuristic designers credited with influencing other designers with his concepts.  His outfits, often with deconstructed tailoring, dark colors, and avant-gard...

By jconnors After showing a collection seemingly geared to keep retailers happy, Yohji Yamamoto filed for bankruptcy today, which would explain this season’s (relative) lack of risk-taking. Let’s hope for something a bit more raw and deconstructed next season then, when we’re all rich again. [WWD...

AFP / Getty ImagesYohji Yamamoto The Wall Street Journal is reporting that avant-garde designer Yohji Yamamoto has filed for bankruptcy, citing debts of over six billion yen, or $67.8 million. Japanese avante-garde designer Yohji Yamamoto has filed for bankruptcy.

By Jenna Move over, David Beckham: Cristiano Ronaldo is posing in the spring Armani underwear campaign. [AP]Beckham, who says he decided not to renew his Armani contract, is said to be looking to launch an underwear line of his own. [WWD] A fit model who worked at Guess? for three years is suing the co...

By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yohji Yamamoto, famous for its austere black clothes, becomes the latest fashion house to fall victim to slumping sales as women turn to cheaper casual apparel amid the downturn.

By Elizabeth Licata Just as we were starting to relax that things would be OK for Christian Lacroix, Yohji Yamamoto has filed for bankruptcy. It has found an... Just as we were starting to relax that things would be OK for Christian Lacroix, Yohji Yamamoto has filed for bankruptcy. It has found an investor, though. J...

By Cynthia Drescher We're pretty sure the Y-3 show, in which Yohji Yamamoto and sports star Zinedine Zidane kicked soccer balls at the paparazzi pit, was the most memorable event of all Fashion Week. But what about the clothes? WWD thought Yohji's "sleek cutaway coats and blazers paired nicely with drop-cro...

By innitmagazine The collection featured signature Yohji Yamamoto styles – structural-like and oversized with the usual black and indigo blue colours. The collection may as well represent the current gloom and doom of the world’s economy with its simple and oversized designs. Looking at the entire coll...

By Pete Designed by Yohji Yamamoto of Y’s and Y-3, COMING SOON is a timeless, casual label created for those who wear what they like. The upcoming Spring/Summer 2010 collection exhibits a number of interesting silhouettes, mixing basic dark shades, subdued colors and some off-the-wall prints....

 United States The previous issues have all been edited by designers who show their collections in Paris, including Yohji Yamamoto, Martin Margiela and Riccardo Tisci, without any fanfare about their respective Japanese, Belgian or Italian nationalities. ...

  USA Who were some of your favorite designers growing up? What about now? When I was younger I loved Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Jil Sander, and Helmut Lang. Now I like a lot of people, but no one designer more than another. ...

 Netherlands Y-3 is a collaboration between Adidas and Japanese ready-to wear designer Yohji Yamamoto. The apparel is a combination of fashion and sportswear, and the new accessories lines will reflect the same mood. According to WWD, this is the first accessories ...

Style Scoop Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV It's the collaboration between fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas that originated in 2002 and fused high style with sportswear. Y-3 opens May 1. • Fab Furnishings: A new addition to World Market Center Las Vegas is now open to the public. ...

We take an early look at the Yohji Yamamoto for Dr. Martens Fall/Winter 2009 boot line-up. The Japanese designer has already worked several seasons with the English shoe manufacturer and in most cases the outcome was pretty crazy. Take a more detailed look at the upcoming Yohji Yamamoto for...

  Canada Introduced to the world in the early '80s by purist Japanese designers such as Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, black was, according to their theories, dense with meaning and subtext. By rejecting colour, these designers could focus more keenly on form ...

By Regina Libian (inaya404) 06 March 2009 @ 10:52 pm Whenever Yohji sees red, we see sheer perfection. Needless to say, this collection is simply magical, from beginning to end. Right off the back, we're greeted with the usual: a bunch of understated but flawless, classic Yohji looks. The fabrics for this season are fab. Whenever he works with a more delicate fabric, not only are the details fantastic, but the result of how the garments look in motion is off-the-charts gorgeous. Speaking of details, this season is no different in that he is, time and time again, one of the masters. In this collection in particular, off the bat I immediately fall in love with the raw, unhemmed edges on some of the pieces, the gathering, the overlapping panels of the jackets, surprise placeme...   [read the full post]

 United Kingdom By Hilary Alexander Yohji Yamamoto’s collection was dominated by the colour black, and the silhouette - long, flowing, asymmetric – which we have come to associate with this “godfather” of the Japanese designers. But there is always a twist in the tale ...

  Canada Yohji Yamamoto: For the intellectual Japanese designer the show Friday night was one beautiful note. Long, lean monastic coats and dresses came out one after another, punctuated only by red flat shoes and a red hair accessory. ...

Mr. Margiela is one of the most insider of fashion insiders - whose clothes labels are a simple white patch with no words. His shows can seem…extreme. Speaking after the show, the influential Mr. Yamamoto said that the red stood for “blood and crazy”. If only he had witnessed Mr. Margiela’s creat...

By jconnors Photos: Courtesy of Yohji Yamamoto More images from Yohji Yamamoto’s footwear collaboration with Salvatore Ferragamo landed in our inbox this morning, and while we’re looking forward to seeing how they hold up on the runway tonight—not to mention what Yohji will be showing on top of th...

By By Adam Kepler View Larger Map Fashion Week Agenda tracks every stilettoed step our style editors take. Today's schedule reads like a veritable who's who of fashion heavyweights: Roger Vivier, Christian Dior, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Martin Margiela. With The Moment's five correspondents in P...

Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto has inked an agreement with Salvatore Ferragamo to create a new collection of ergonomic shoes called Salvatore Ferragamo for Yohji Yamamoto. Yamamoto plans to unveil the Ferragamo footwear on Friday, in his fall 2009 runway show in Paris. The agreement...

Oki-Ni now has the collection in stock. Detailed images of the Linda Farrow Vintage Spring/Summer 2009 Eyewear collection follow after the jump. Read the rest of Linda Farrow Vintage Spring/Summer 2009 | Bernhard Willhelm, Damir Doma, Yohji Yamamoto

By Leslie Price Discount fiend Guerilla Shopper, who posted a teaser yesterday about a rumored Yohji Yamamoto sale, is back today with the details. They are: "Yohji Yamamoto sale today (3/3/09) and tomorrow (3/4/09) from noon to 8 p.m. at 304 Hudson (@... Discount fiend Guerilla Shopper, who posted a teaser y...

Each season, the Y-3 show is an opportunity to see what a wildly artistic and influential designer will do when asked to create a totally commercial collection (that’s noxious fashion-speak for a collection where lots of clothes will sell to average folks in stores in order to make gobs o...

Similar looks have been percolating in fashion circles recently — Mr. Yamamoto unveiled skirts for men at his September runway show for the Y-3 label for Adidas. And, Marc Jacobs has been appearing at high-profile events and parties wearing skirts or skorts since early fall. The designer,...

By Regina Libian (inaya404) 07 December 2008 @ 01:56 pm Yohji Yamamoto Spring 2003   One of my favorite collections, this Spring 2003 offering of his was definitely one to remember. As he often does, this collection is a bit of a culmination of past techniques (and retrospectively speaking - future ones too) but it is still pretty stand-out, in my opinion. It is really refined and incredibly directional. I always seem to fall for his very narrowly conceptual collections over the varied ones, I've noticed, although they're all delicious. First of all, I love collars... and this collection has all sorts and they're either perfectly understated or brilliantly - and in the most effortless of manners - exaggerated. The overall silhouette is a comfortable one but, much like Sp...   [read the full post]

His flair for asymmetry is always impressive, no matter how many times I see it in his work, it never gets old. He's got the ability to do it with such class... it never comes close to looking juvenile. The long white dresses are incredible, in theory and in execution; they're so new, but so Yohji all the same. I don't even like sunglasses (save for the L'incognitos) but I can't deny the appeal of these ones he's used here... they're really nice in shape and just interesting overall and not to mention they suit his aesthetic perfectly. The belts are also something to be spoken of... whether in an accentual white or in black, they definitely add a subtle but great statement to the looks.   [read the full post]

A Yohji show these days can stop you in your tracks. Not so much because he shocks you—he's not an out-with-the-old, in-with-the-new kind of guy—but because of his wistful score and the models' stately pace. You could call them old-fashioned, but they encourage the eye to relax, which isn'...

 South Korea - Unlike in the 1980s when Japanese designers such as Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake started a wave of avant-garde fashion, this time Asians ...

By blogretailrefugees The Moment blog in the New York Times made a post about the new line for Yohji Yamamoto “Y” line of clothes today- specifically, it discussed the choice of “models” to show off the new line.  The interesting thing is that the people chosen to represent the brand are not the standard chiseled,...

Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto found a perfect recipe for meditation in his ready-to-wear show on Monday: ghostly models ambling along an illuminated catwalk, a monochrome color scheme and a soothing live piano soundtrack. The master of minimalism appeared to have distilled fashi...

 UK - Yohji Yamamoto began his career stating that he was inspired by Japanese workwear, and he has maintained that viewpoint to ever more poetic effect. ...

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By ceri If you can’t wait until next Spring for some of Yohji’s super cool clothes, try this raw cut turtle neck jumper in light weight knit by Yohji Yamamoto. Ever since Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo of Comme De Garcons and Issey Miyake appeared on the fashion scene in the eighties, I have been a big f...

By By Suzy Menkes Calm , beauty and - yes - glamour was the feeling at Yohji Yamamoto's show.

Avant-garde Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto seemed to be commenting on the global economic mood when he sent a series of baleful black suits down his runway this evening. Half-tailored, half-hanging with shreds of unsewn fabric, they weren’t the sort of clothes most people would wear...

By bagcraze(noreply@blogger.com) not wanting to lose the japanese customers (at least in my opinion :p), after Hermès collaborated with Yohji Yamamoto, and not enough with Takashi Murakami, Louis Vuitton collaborated with a Japanese based designer brand to create a new design.

By Shannon Via National Jewelry Network: New York—Two iconic Japanese design forces, Mikimoto and clothing designer Yohji Yamamoto, will collaborate on a fine jewelry collection set to launch this fall. Three groups of designs will comprise the Yamamoto-designed collection of about 20...

 New Zealand - So I think it's a good fit for the market," says Johnston, who counts directional designers Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and Hussein Chalayan as her ...

 Canada - Yohji Yamamoto: One of the most respected names in Japanese fashion, with his signature being skewed proportions. Considered influential in the industry for ...

 Philippines - I’m taking inspiration from Japanese designers like Yohji Yamamoto and Junya Watanabe.” But none of last season’s kimono tops, and more of oversized shirts ...

A really marvelous collection from Yohji this season. His choice of models speaks volumes and the clothing conveys something quite well: that Yohji designs for the realistic man. These looks are practical, comfortable, loose fitting yet incredibly stylish and above all they are wearab...

 France - By Jessica Michault PARIS: Size was the starting point of the Yohji Yamamoto menswear collection, according to the smiling designer, but he wasn't just ...

 UK - EVER one to throw a spanner in the fashion works, Yohji Yamamoto caused quite the stir on the Paris front rows yesterday by eschewing the bronzed and ...

 FL - Y-3: Japanese Yohji Yamamoto is a hip fashion designer based out of Paris, Tokyo and New York. His partnership with Adidas shoes created the Y-3 line. ...

By By GUY TREBAY Veiled and distant and dour, Yohji Yamamoto is the cockeyed pessimist of fashion.

By By JOHN DUKA Yohji Yamamoto may stand barely five feet tall, but his effect on world fashion in the last two years has been enormous.

By Christina BinkleyOn Tuesday morning in Paris, as the fashion elite were gathering at the Balenciaga show, 17-year-old model Ali Michael was heading home to the U.S. far earlier than anticipated.Miss Michael was last season's model du jour, and she looks wraithlike, with a still-devel...

The Japanese hold on avant garde fashion has existed since the 1980s. But 20 years on, it cannot be reiterated too often that there is no such thing as 'Japanese Design' - rather a group of exceptionally creative individuals. After  a beautiful and graceful show from Yohji Yamamoto, using...