1970s-1990s The Japanese Avant-garde - Page 14

Estella* · 04-04-2005

aaahh sarah moon

this thread is so wonderful.

(ps: i bought a pleats please by miyake dress, i will post it in what are you wearing soon

)

travolta · 04-04-2005

^ awesome anna k! I would love to own a pleats please dress

softgrey · 04-04-2005

ahh...thanks travolta...dreamy...

yohji has such an incredible way with HATS...

travolta · 04-04-2005

Tokyo 1991

In 1991 the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, together with Comme des Garcons, was putting on the first men's fashion show in Japan and asked me to be one of his runway models. At the time Yohji prefered to use actors and musicians over models and he has also used athletes in the past. I flew to Tokyo from Los Angeles and was picked up at the airport and taken to a very nice hotel in Tokyo, which Frank Lloyd Wright had designed in the sixties.

The show took place in the olympic swim stadium of Tokyo, where the pool had been covered by a runway stage. On each end of the runway a huge wall was erected. Behind one wall Yamamoto was set up and behind the other wall Comme Des Garcons.

Comme Des Garcons: Dennis Hopper, Trumpet player Don Cherry and his son Eagle-Eye Cherry (a TV presenter in the UK and not yet the pop star), british actor Julian something or other, Keyboardist Morgan Fisher (who later produced the wonderful CD "Miniatures" to which I contributed a piece)...

Yohji Yamamoto: Charles Lloyd, Edgar Winter, a member of YMO (one of Japans most famous bands, which also featured Ryuichi Sakamoto)...

Yohji and his people treated everyone wonderfully. And then he made a mistake on the day of the show. Thinking we were all men instead of the stars some felt they were, he offered as part of the refreshments Japanese cans of beer. In Japan cans are tiny, they are cute and many of the guys probably thought that one couldn't possibly get drunk from drinking tiny cans of beer....well, if you drink a dozen of them you do get drunk, you know! And then a British pop singer asked a French rapper to turn down the crap on his boom-box and the French guy responded with his fist, which fractured the pop guy's jaw. While he was rushed to the hospital Yohji's people frantically searched for somebody who could wear his clothes.... In the end one of Yohji's French employees took his place and wore the clothes well. I felt terribly embarassed. Here we were in one of the great cities of the world, guests of a real artist, and these men had to get into a fight. What a way to repay Yohji's kindness! But fame is fleeting and karma instant.. I never heard from the British pop star and the French rapper again...

I remember how amazed we were at the Japanese audience. Some had waited since the early morning hours and yet, when the doors opened the first in line went to the last seat instead of claiming the best seat in the house. It was almost biblical....

One thing I remember about the show itself is that Yohji, who is a guitarist himself and also produced the soundtrack, had installed sound triggers along the runway. We were invited to step on those triggers, each of which controlled a different sound that would blast over the music. Car crashes, industrial sounds, drum breaks, glass breaking, guitar riffs etc...I also remember that the Brit who was walking ahead of me was drunk or high or both and thought that the crowd's enthusiasm was directed at him instead of the clothing...I remember three or four people helping me change into the next outfit, grabbing shirts, pulling on shoes...I remember the late Don Cherry walking around on the runway like a court jester and greeting the other Comme Des Garcons walkers...to be continued

radio.weblogs.com/ 0120756/2003/08/22.html

softgrey · 04-04-2005

woah!!!...

...
who is ottmar liebert?...

great backstage story...
thx again travolta

MaLkAv · 04-04-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexN

That stuff is ridiculously brilliant.

SUBLIME! FANTASTICO!!!

travolta · 04-04-2005

Correspondences by Yohji Yamamoto, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti, foto di Alessandro Ciampi

photogallery.tiscali.it/ arte/zoom.php?id=6683...

MaLkAv · 04-04-2005

this stuff is just amazing! sadly I never enjoyed menswear made by Yohji, but all these creations... they're so wonderful!

and the wedding dress from which the girl picks her accessories... is totally out of this world! i wish you could have seen my face when i saw that slideshow... i was something between this:

and

thank you so much for posting it!

travolta · 04-04-2005

enlarged pic of what droogist posted

no problem

MaLkAv · 04-04-2005

this topic is gonna kill me!!!

and YY is becoming one of my fav designers (I always respected him, but now I worship him!).

travolta · 04-04-2005

all i have to say is i need to find more search engines...yohji is googled out

MaLkAv · 04-04-2005

some gorgeous Yohji's stuff from Kitano's movie "Dolls":

travolta · 04-04-2005

comme des garcons s/s 2001
from The Fashion

czilla · 04-04-2005

Amazing.. I just love that parasol <g>

The wedding dress with secret pockets pictures were also amazing.. thanks for all the eye candy.. ^^

travolta · 04-04-2005

since there is no longer access to the comme des garcons collections via the first view website...i found some links to get in through the back door...

http://www.firstview.com/Designers/C...ction/S01.html
http://www.firstview.com/Spring96/Co...cons/S001.html
http://www.firstview.com/WRTWfall97/...CONS/S001.html
http://www.firstview.com/WRTWspring9...CONS/S001.html
http://firstview.com/WRTWfall99/COMME_DES_GARCONS/
http://firstview.com/WRTWspring2000/COMME_DES_GARCONS/

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	Tokyo 1991 In 1991 the Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, together with Comme des Garcons, was putting on the first men's fashion show in Japan and asked me to be one of his runway models. At the time Yohji prefered to use actors and musicians over models and he has also used athletes in the past. I flew to Tokyo from Los Angeles and was picked up at the airport and taken to a very nice hotel in Tokyo, which Frank Lloyd Wright had designed in the sixties. The show took place in the olympic swim stadium of Tokyo, where the pool had been covered by a runway stage. On each end of the runway a huge wall was erected. Behind one wall Yamamoto was set up and behind the other wall Comme Des Garcons. Comme Des Garcons: Dennis Hopper, Trumpet player Don Cherry and his son Eagle-Eye Cherry (a TV presenter in the UK and not yet the pop star), british actor Julian something or other, Keyboardist Morgan Fisher (who later produced the wonderful CD "Miniatures" to which I contributed a piece)... Yohji Yamamoto: Charles Lloyd, Edgar Winter, a member of YMO (one of Japans most famous bands, which also featured Ryuichi Sakamoto)... Yohji and his people treated everyone wonderfully. And then he made a mistake on the day of the show. Thinking we were all men instead of the stars some felt they were, he offered as part of the refreshments Japanese cans of beer. In Japan cans are tiny, they are cute and many of the guys probably thought that one couldn't possibly get drunk from drinking tiny cans of beer....well, if you drink a dozen of them you do get drunk, you know! And then a British pop singer asked a French rapper to turn down the crap on his boom-box and the French guy responded with his fist, which fractured the pop guy's jaw. While he was rushed to the hospital Yohji's people frantically searched for somebody who could wear his clothes.... In the end one of Yohji's French employees took his place and wore the clothes well. I felt terribly embarassed. Here we were in one of the great cities of the world, guests of a real artist, and these men had to get into a fight. What a way to repay Yohji's kindness! But fame is fleeting and karma instant.. I never heard from the British pop star and the French rapper again... I remember how amazed we were at the Japanese audience. Some had waited since the early morning hours and yet, when the doors opened the first in line went to the last seat instead of claiming the best seat in the house. It was almost biblical.... One thing I remember about the show itself is that Yohji, who is a guitarist himself and also produced the soundtrack, had installed sound triggers along the runway. We were invited to step on those triggers, each of which controlled a different sound that would blast over the music. Car crashes, industrial sounds, drum breaks, glass breaking, guitar riffs etc...I also remember that the Brit who was walking ahead of me was drunk or high or both and thought that the crowd's enthusiasm was directed at him instead of the clothing...I remember three or four people helping me change into the next outfit, grabbing shirts, pulling on shoes...I remember the late Don Cherry walking around on the runway like a court jester and greeting the other Comme Des Garcons walkers...to be continued radio.weblogs.com/ 0120756/2003/08/22.html __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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softgrey flaunt the imperfection.. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: downtown... Gender: femme Posts: 49,949	woah!!!...... who is ottmar liebert?... great backstage story... thx again travolta __________________ "It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding." ChristianDior

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MaLkAv rising star Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Italy Gender: homme Posts: 129	this stuff is just amazing! sadly I never enjoyed menswear made by Yohji, but all these creations... they're so wonderful! and the wedding dress from which the girl picks her accessories... is totally out of this world! i wish you could have seen my face when i saw that slideshow... i was something between this: and thank you so much for posting it! __________________ MaLkAv from Italy Comin' to Italy and looking for D'n'B gigs? Check out the Italian Drum & Bass forum! Last edited by MaLkAv; 04-04-2005 at 04:10 PM. Reason: grammar issues

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	enlarged pic of what droogist posted no problem __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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MaLkAv rising star Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Italy Gender: homme Posts: 129	this topic is gonna kill me!!! and YY is becoming one of my fav designers (I always respected him, but now I worship him!). __________________ MaLkAv from Italy Comin' to Italy and looking for D'n'B gigs? Check out the Italian Drum & Bass forum!

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	all i have to say is i need to find more search engines...yohji is googled out __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/

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MaLkAv rising star Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Italy Gender: homme Posts: 129	some gorgeous Yohji's stuff from Kitano's movie "Dolls": __________________ MaLkAv from Italy Comin' to Italy and looking for D'n'B gigs? Check out the Italian Drum & Bass forum!

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czilla front row Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Too far from San Francisco, CA Gender: femme Posts: 250	Amazing.. I just love that parasol <g> The wedding dress with secret pockets pictures were also amazing.. thanks for all the eye candy.. ^^ Last edited by czilla; 04-04-2005 at 04:56 PM.

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travolta V.I.P. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: New York City Gender: femme Posts: 3,595	since there is no longer access to the comme des garcons collections via the first view website...i found some links to get in through the back door... http://www.firstview.com/Designers/C...ction/S01.html http://www.firstview.com/Spring96/Co...cons/S001.html http://www.firstview.com/WRTWfall97/...CONS/S001.html http://www.firstview.com/WRTWspring9...CONS/S001.html http://firstview.com/WRTWfall99/COMME_DES_GARCONS/ http://firstview.com/WRTWspring2000/COMME_DES_GARCONS/ __________________ "the way a problem is set up often suggests the resolution." http://michelleboxgirl.blogspot.com/ Last edited by travolta; 04-04-2005 at 05:16 PM.

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