Yohji Yamamoto Menswear F/W 2023.24 Paris

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[MulletProof]

hugs, thanks!

Perfection!

That first half with all these rich fabrics, layered so beautifully.. he gets it. I mean, what is this coat.. . Just when I'm thinking fashion does nothing for me, he switches things on and now I'm thinking absolutely nothing speaks to me the way a [good] Yohji collection still does.

Also every time I see him, I feel compelled to look up his age again and start freaking out and hoping he's working out, regularly seeing a doctor, eating well, wearing the right shoes, having security. What are we going to do if..

Anyway, where's this model's agent, someone needs to tell him, go blue steel, say 'OH' as you head towards the runway, anything will be better than that.

 

[Drusilla_]

This is incredible - my favourite use of colour I've ever seen by Yohji, and done in a way that's in perfect harmony with his more classically all-black style. I just love the perfect symphony of lengths and layers and colours and prints that this is - makes me revise slightly the rather grim opinion I had of 2020s fashion so far.

god I wish I was a rich man so I could just go right into one of his shops and buy this entire collection. And MulletProof, I get what you mean - there were definitely times during the pandemic I was sending up prayers for the man (among some of my other faves at or approaching senior citizen age), his collections have been renewed fire for some time now and I hope to god he's with us for many more years!

 

[Nomar]

Urgh this is sooooo good.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Something delightfully deranged about this with the clash of rich textiles, the dilapidated peelings in the last couple of looks and that highwayman feel the silhouettes have. It's all a little playfully mad, like a peculiar Kubrick film. And I love it.

And those peaked lapels! Good golly I'm enchanted.

 

[WAVES]

it’s so easy on the eyes…

 

[YohjiAddict]

Just beautiful. Yohji is more known for his use of gabardine but he can also do the most incredibly things with velvet, as this collection demonstrates, so lush and at the same time charmingly ragged. It brings to mind his 90s work, in the best way possible.

The opening look and that indigo getup worn with a floppy hat are all the inspiration I needed for the month, I can forget about the rest of the shows.

 

[Drusilla_]

^the hats are great, I love seeing a show with no bloody bucket hats!

 

[runner]

several pieces (jackets, shirts, shoes seen in the four looks in #2) are Y's for men designed again by yohji yamamoto.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Looking a little Diagon Alley.

 

[runner]

forgot to say the reborn Y's for men consists of about 50 pieces they say.

 

[runner]

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[WAVES]

that first picture looks amazing, very Lindbergh.
minus the toothpick. just no.

the second one is also nice but the asymmetry bothers me.

 

[MulletProof]

^ I know .. easy to fix if you scroll down just enough, but yeah that’s not 18th century hot miner as he thinks.. makes me wonder just what is it to need a toothpick for that long.

Other than that, do we know who shot that? that last pic is ..

 

[runner]

it may be possible to think the toothpick is there for alluding yohji's presence, for Y's has not been his charge for years.
toothpick (said in japanese) and yohji are homonyms.

takay as the photographer there.

 

[Phuel]

Looking a little Diagon Alley.

LOL You're being too kind.

Too-literal a dose of 1984 Duran Duran/Thompson Twins/Frankie Goes To Hollywood in that awful 80s upholstery fabric and color-palette for my taste.

 

[softgrey]

the second one is also nice but the asymmetry bothers me.

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yohji is literally the kind of asymmetry...ha!

 

[softgrey]

it may be possible to think the toothpick is there for alluding yohji's presence, for Y's has not been his charge for years.
toothpick (said in japanese) and yohji are homonyms.

takay as the photographer there.

brilliant~!

thanks for that perspective...most helpful for us westerners...

 

[softgrey]

Also every time I see him, I feel compelled to look up his age again and start freaking out and hoping he's working out, regularly seeing a doctor, eating well, wearing the right shoes, having security. What are we going to do if..

same~!

79yrs old if anyone is counting...

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