Yohji Yamamoto Spring/ Summer 2016
Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016
Designed by : Yohji Yamamoto 山本耀司
FRIDAY, OCT 2 2015 8:30 PM
Salons de Hôtel de Ville - 3 rue Lobau, 4th Paris
Photo Gallery
Yohji Yamamoto S/S 2016 show footage video
“Underwear”
The most utilitarian items in fashion and the least expected repertoire that Yohji Yamamoto would treat as a subject in his collections. Yet, traditional underwear from both Europe and Japan has been largely featured and revisited with a twist of punk and a decaying state of deconstruction. Corsets with boning sticking out of the fabric, partly covered cage skirts, large crinolines with distorted shapes… Yohji always sees the extreme opposites, fills in the gaps in between, and connects the dots. The dressing process was also one crucial element in this collection. Draped fabrics, tied knots, layered panels, wrapping capes, corseted waists… As he often says, it is up to the person who actually wears the clothes to finish the work. In other words, the very act to dress up is part of the creative process. There was also a subversive message in some aspects. The paintings on the dresses were body parts, such as hands, feet, elbows, and knees. The huge parasols umbrellas and the sportswear touch in the collection evoked the reality of the extreme weather of today. Both romantic and morbid, each model walked with firm steps, with an intention to express a certain virtue of necessity, not to whitewash the significance of the different incidents around us, but to learn to admit and to start it all over again.
Staged by Yohji Yamamoto Team
Lighting and scenography by Masao Nihei
Hairstyling by Eugene Souleiman
Make-up by Pat Mc Grath
Music by Jiro Amimoto