In the words of vogue….
“With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future,”[1] the enigmatic Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto said in 2011, summing up the ethos behind his long career of smashing fashion boundaries in the name of invention. From his first Tokyo collection in 1977, “avant-garde’s Far Eastern couturier,”[2] as Town & Country once called him, has restlessly sought to discover new ways of dressing the female form. Step by groundbreaking step, Yamamoto has never wavered in his pursuit of his life’s passion: achieving anti-fashion through fashion. Continue reading