The black poet returns to honor his nickname to present a dark collection at for Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2020 Paris, this time with a proposal that explores the deconstruction of elements such as jackets and coats by adding linear illustrations and double exposure photographs.
The designer sent his models slowly down the runway, many with disheveled hair, to his contemplative, soporific singing, with the layered, all-black looks that are his signature.
Yohji Yamamoto might have been in a brooding mood, but there was a certain lightness and breeziness to his men’s spring collection.
The designer sent his models slowly down the runway, many with disheveled hair, to his contemplative, soporific singing, with the layered, all-black looks that are his signature.
Messages printed, painted and stitched into the clothing were tender — “I hold you, you hold me”, or longing — “hard to arrive, where are you,” and sometimes cheeky: “Mother F–ker.”