BEAUTY: Clothing--Yohji Yamamoto

I always love seeing a Yohji Yamamoto collection...the highly regarded and highly decorated designer is one of those elevated, iconic artists who are singular. While I love when a designer takes inspiration, or inspirations from some wild, fascinating, interesting source, Yamamoto exists in a realm of his own mythology, much like Rick Owens. Yamamoto has his own sartorial vernacular and his own internal logic. His creations--Asian and Western elements combined into a future/retro (sometimes ecclesiastical) sensibility, layered and slouchy Bohemian-chic garments, flowing asymmetrical cuts, all awash with an insouciant, rippling sense of Romanticism worthy of any French Symbolist poet--are timeless, since they are not necessarily tethered to anything outside of their orbit.

For this SS '25 collection at Paris Fashion Week, Yamamoto showed familiar silhouettes in flowing silk and rayon with intriguing words, phrases, graphics, and his own paintings and drawings printed onto garments. But we see even more of a selection in Kanji, explained by his return to Buddhism... because, according to Yamamoto, "the world is becoming too dangerous." And this was a men's collection but there were a smattering of women walking the runway including legendary actress Charlotte Rampling (in image fourteen below)!

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