What is Yohji Yamamoto style called?

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Yohji Yamamoto (山本耀司, Yamamoto Yōji, born 3 October 1943) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics.

Where is Yohji Yamamoto manufactured?

Yohji Yamamoto’s custom-made textiles use a variety of traditional Japanese techniques and other more common weaves such as gabardine and tweed. All his fabrics are made in Japan to his own specifications, making them unique to his designs.

What is Yohji Yamamoto brand?

Yamamoto’s other lines include Pour Homme, Costume d’Homme and Regulation Yohji Yamamoto. Yamamoto has also collaborated with a number of brands, including Adidas (Y-3), Hermès, Mikimoto and Mandarina Duck; and with artists such as Tina Turner, Sir Elton John, Placebo, Takeshi Kitano, Pina Bausch and Heiner Müller.

Who influenced Yohji Yamamoto?

Mon cher Azzedine.” The work of Pablo Picasso had inspired Yamamoto, whose approach to design is similarly sculptural: skewed. This was also an homage – Yamamoto used the French spelling – to Azzedine Alaïa, a contemporary and friend, who had died on 18 November 2017, so less than six months before.

Where does Yohji Yamamoto live now?

Tokyo
I live in Tokyo. I only come to Paris around my fashion shows.

Who is Yohji Yamamoto’s daughter?

Limi FeuYohji Yamamoto / Daughter

When was Yohji Yamamoto created?

In 1984 he founded Yohji Yamamoto joint stock corporation and presented his first menswear collection in Paris. Along with his experimental ‘Yohji Yamamoto’ label, he introduced more affordable and wearable lines under the labels ‘Y’s For Men and ‘Y’s For Women’.

How did Yohji Yamamoto get started?

After completing his university studies in 1966, Yamamoto studied fashion design at the famous Bunkafukuso Gakuin, a fashion institute in Tokyo. Despite his skills as a master craftsman, he started his career as an anonymous creator around 1970. Two years later he marketed his own designs under the label Y’s.