Despite his status as an elder statesman of the fashion industry, Yohji Yamamoto doesn’t get swept up in the hype about his 50-year-strong body of work. “I’m not creating anything. I’m ...

At 80, fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto still chain-smokes, still dreams of gangsters and cowboys, still gambles like there’s no tomorrow. “Marlon Brando! I loved him,” he says. He loves ...

A few days after Yohji Yamamoto’s fall 2023 womenswear show at the beginning of March, Paris suddenly fell quiet following a blockbuster week of fashion shows. Most of the fashion crowd had left ...

The fashion designer pulls back the curtain on his creative process. ... This sketch [from Yohji Yamamoto’s fall 1988 collection] (above) is a lie. It’s a woman, but she looks like a man.

Opening the show, these two designs face one another (shown below), both inspired by a French costume design technique known as faux cul, or in English, ‘false bottom’. ‘He really likes to see women ...

At 80, Yohji Yamamoto is Still Curious After opening a store in New York and debuting his Spring 2024 collection in Paris, Mr. Yamamoto is eager to keep observing By Steff Yotka Published: Oct 5, 2023 ...

Yohji Yamamoto’s headquarters in Paris sits in a prestigious-looking six-story stone building on a narrow street in the ... the way most European designer fashion did, were made for the ...

A longtime protégée of Yohji Yamamoto, Ms. Harui, 42, is one of the few jewelry designers in the fashion world to co-sign pieces produced for a leading designer in addition to running her own ...

Despite his status as an elder statesman of the fashion industry, Yohji Yamamoto doesn’t get swept up in the hype about his 50-year-strong body of work. “I’m not creating anything.

Yohji Yamamoto's peers are long gone. ... He believed that clothes that fitted tightly to a woman’s body, the way most European designer fashion did, were made for the amusement of men.