Yohji Yamamoto F/W 13.14 Paris - Page 3

softgrey · 06-03-2013

as usual, yohji's clothes look better in motion...
i love the show invite---wish i had one...

thanks for the additional pics runner!

runner · 07-03-2013

you are welcome softgrey

from the invite, maybe there is a certain folklore reference here, rather than rei kawakubo reference.

this story as YY version, the black crane

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ehonnavi
blue-robin

runner · 07-03-2013

some more from fashionjp

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softgrey · 07-03-2013

Quote:

Originally Posted by runner

you are welcome softgrey

from the invite, maybe there is a certain folklore reference here, rather than rei kawakubo reference.

this story as YY version, the black crane

thanks for the references and the link runner!

i was trying to figure out what was painted on some of the looks...
it did look like a flying bird to me, so i guess it's the crane...
interesting...

i think there must be different versions of that story in different countries...
i've never heard it that the girl turns into a crane before...
the crane seems to have particular significance in japan and in asia in general...
i assume they must be a common bird there?

we have them here, but only in wet, marshy areas...and there really aren't a lot of areas like that over here...
maybe the cranes like the rice paddies?
didn't you say you used to catch little bugs and frogs in the rice paddies when you were small?...
i suppose those would make a nice meal for some cranes...

is yohji the crane...with his feathers all torn so he can make the finest fabrics in the world for us?...
i hope he doesn't fly away!!!

runner · 09-03-2013

yes the crane is a beloved creature in japan but not a common bird.
you'd see them mostly inhabit the northern areas in hokkaido. so they can often be associated with snowy landscape over here.
although they seem to like marshes and little life gathering there and I too was a big fan of loach, I had never encountered them back then unfortunately.

maybe he is, or "get back" was to all those who used to be the cranes in the industry? like get back to those days when the system was not this "shi tty" and the devotion to making clothes was a bit more sincere.
he is the man who walks backward into the future. he progresses with his face toward the past basically.
what is always on his mind is possibilities left in the past, "the dead" that there is to be "resurrected".

cranes from nagapon
angelus novus from goo

Not Plain Jane · 09-03-2013

Beautiful images; I love the gowns in particular as well as those blue-finger-nail gloves!!

Love, too, the "Angel of History" image - makes me think of Walter Benjamin's famous quote.

runner · 10-03-2013

if the stagnation is really at work right now, that's lucky for the angel.
it serves as a windbreak, and he can close his wings finally.
there is a lot to do.
the future will be found in the past. something new will be born with the dead.

**iluvjeisa** · 10-03-2013

The new shots add new depth, definitely.

Phuel · 11-03-2013

Yeah, the crane is an eternal symbol of all that's good not only in Japan, but China and Korea as well.

This collection looks like Yohji fast-forwarding through a joyful and "Pop" romp of the various styles of Japanese women to me. And in that sense, it's a bit shallow and throwaway compared to his usual showing-- nothing is strikingly memorable to me here, despite many looks: Everything from the 80s muted colors of the tube-esque/color-block silhouettes to the anime/Victorian Harajuku Girls of the 90s, to the classic long, sombre. monastic uniform of the artist-type-- complete with the severe, blunt bob (that even Rei wears, but hardly exclusive to her, as it's the hairstyle many women in the creative industry in Asia have adopted). I don't get the final part with all the various lengths of flares/bells... It's all too cartoony for me-- and for Yohji. I'd love to know why these designs were included.

I'm not used to a "best-of-Japanese-street-styles-through-the-decades type of collection from Yohji, as I prefer the restrained, disciplined and more pensive and poetic side of him. This all feels like... "speed-designing" Yohji. And as a collection, it feels ragtag and redundant to me, so unlike him, and not in a good way: Too "Pop-up" Yohji.

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softgrey flaunt the imperfection.. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: downtown... Gender: femme Posts: 49,969	as usual, yohji's clothes look better in motion... i love the show invite---wish i had one... thanks for the additional pics runner! __________________ "It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding." ChristianDior

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Not Plain Jane V.I.P. Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Canada Gender: femme Posts: 8,289	Beautiful images; I love the gowns in particular as well as those blue-finger-nail gloves!! Love, too, the "Angel of History" image - makes me think of Walter Benjamin's famous quote. __________________ Fashion: Don’t you recognize me? Death: You should know that I don’t see very well and I can’t wear glasses. Fashion: I’m Fashion, your sister. Death: My sister? Fashion: Yes. You and I together keep undoing and changing things down here on earth although you go about it in one way and I another. Giacomo Leopardi, “Dialogue Between Fashion and Death.”abridged

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runner El Viaje Definitivo Join Date: Feb 2004 Gender: homme Posts: 10,923	if the stagnation is really at work right now, that's lucky for the angel. it serves as a windbreak, and he can close his wings finally. there is a lot to do. the future will be found in the past. something new will be born with the dead. __________________ Let the stars decide

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iluvjeisa clever ain't wise Mod Squad Leader Join Date: Jan 2004 Gender: femme Posts: 13,608	The new shots add new depth, definitely. __________________ Beauty is a warm gun Her Famed Warm Gun

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Phuel backstage pass Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Canada Gender: homme Posts: 504	Yeah, the crane is an eternal symbol of all that's good not only in Japan, but China and Korea as well. This collection looks like Yohji fast-forwarding through a joyful and "Pop" romp of the various styles of Japanese women to me. And in that sense, it's a bit shallow and throwaway compared to his usual showing-- nothing is strikingly memorable to me here, despite many looks: Everything from the 80s muted colors of the tube-esque/color-block silhouettes to the anime/Victorian Harajuku Girls of the 90s, to the classic long, sombre. monastic uniform of the artist-type-- complete with the severe, blunt bob (that even Rei wears, but hardly exclusive to her, as it's the hairstyle many women in the creative industry in Asia have adopted). I don't get the final part with all the various lengths of flares/bells... It's all too cartoony for me-- and for Yohji. I'd love to know why these designs were included. I'm not used to a "best-of-Japanese-street-styles-through-the-decades type of collection from Yohji, as I prefer the restrained, disciplined and more pensive and poetic side of him. This all feels like... "speed-designing" Yohji. And as a collection, it feels ragtag and redundant to me, so unlike him, and not in a good way: Too "Pop-up" Yohji.

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