Yohji Yamamoto: the designer talks about his career in an exhibition in Milan
Twenty-five dresses tell of Yohji Yamamoto's ambivalent and poetic relationship with time. The first Italian exhibition dedicated to the Japanese designer will be hosted in Milan by the concept store created by Carla Sozzani, 10 Corso Como.
An unmissable exhibition for fashion lovers, and not only. The first Italian exhibition dedicated to the visionary Japanese designer "Yohji Yamamoto. Letter to the future" opens May 16th at 10 Corso Como , the Milanese concept store created by Carla Sozzani which has brought together avant-garde fashion and art for more than four decades. One of the most influential personalities in the world of fashion, to tell the story of his career the curator Alessio de'Navasques has chosen to exhibit 25 archive items - from the Yohji Yamamoto Collection - which cover a time line from 1986 to 2024 .
An asynchronous flow of shapes, asymmetries and materials that showcases garments that have entered the history of fashion. Like the iconic faux-cul of the red silk coat from autumn winter 1986-87 which creates a direct dialogue with an item from Yamamoto 's latest collections, autumn winter 2023-24. Or even the felt that becomes origami from the 1996-97 autumn winter collection.
After completing his university studies in law in 1966, Yamamoto landed a fashion design course at the famous Bunkafukuso Gakuin, Tokyo's most important fashion institute. Despite his manual and artisanal skills, he began his career as an anonymous designer around 1970. In 1977 he presented his first collection under the Y's label, which in the future was maintained as the second line of the maison. In 1984 Yohji launched the men's line, following the same stylistic guidelines as the women's.
