Yohji Yamamoto
Built a poetic, oversized, predominantly black aesthetic that rejected body-conscious fashion and redefined draping.
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Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. He is considered a master tailor, alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, and is best known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics.
He made black a whole philosophy and cut clothes that hide the body rather than flaunt it — anti-fashion so rigorous it became its own permanent avant-garde.
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Built a poetic, oversized, predominantly black aesthetic that rejected body-conscious fashion and redefined draping.
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