Yohji Yamamoto to Produce Luggage with Mandarina Duck S/S 07

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Yohji Yamamoto to Produce Luggage with Mandarina Duck

Yojhi Yamamoto has signed up with Italian luggage firm Mandarina Duck for a limited edition collection.




Japanese fashion guru Yohji Yamamoto has signed up with Italian luggage firm Mandarina Duck.

For the next season of spring/summer 2007 Yohji Yamamoto will produce a line of co-branded bags, travel cases and accessories - in his trademark deconstructed/origami/quirky/amazing style.

http://toronto.fashion-monitor.com

 

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Yohji Yamamoto, who does Y-3 sportswear in collaboration with Adidas, has bagged another partnership — with Italian luggage specialist Mandarina Duck. Yohji Yamamoto will design a line of bags, travel cases and accessories under the name Y’s Mandarina. The new collection will debut for Spring 2007 in showrooms in Milan, Paris, Antwerp, Tokyo and New York.

“It will be designed with Yohji’s DNA,” said Yamamoto chief executive, Keizo Tamoto, of the collaboration. He told WWD that the travel theme has featured strongly in Yamamoto’s collections and that the explosion in global travel had prompted him to want to design this collection. “This category, we think, will become more and more important,” said Tamoto.

The range will be approximately 30 to 50 percent more expensive than the standard Mandarina Duck products. It is expected to generate annual sales of €20 million by the third year of the collaboration. Distribution will include specialty and department stores as well as a number of freestanding Y’s and Mandarina Duck stores.

“This is the first collaboration we have in our 29 years of business,” said Mandarina Group vice president Sergio Rao. “It is a strategic milestone.


www.kitmeout.com

 

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i have seen only one pic from Italian Flair magazine...
but i can't post it...

anyone have any images to post?...
what i have seen is gorgeous!!..

 

[skot4mc]

interesting news, thanks softgrey.

looking forward to some images..

 

[Zazie]

Interesting...amd I'm dying to see as they are so different in design direction and outlook - one is so deconstructed abstract-retro and the other completely cute mod-industrial. All my luggages, many bags and even some clothes are Mandarina Duck since my early teens - I'm that loyal. Couldn't ever stand that LV crap. I would expect designers who are more like Jil Sander to do a MD collaboration because their design aesthetics, materials and colours are spot on, but I'm open minded and would love to add new carry ons that would match the moodier "Japanese" clothes in the wardrobe.

 

[*Happiness*]

will be very interesting to see.

Thanks softgrey for posting the info!

 

[mirrra]

thanks soft
just 2 small images from www.modaonline.it

 

[gia0202]

intersting--but i would need to ee a more detailed shot to see if its worth a yohji pricetag

 

[mirrra]

more
www.hotars.net
so far - something i've been dreaming about

 

[gia0202]

oooooo

 

[Avantster]

Thanks softie for posting and mirra for the pictures!

I agree with you Zazie. Coincidentally I also liked Mandarina Duck from a very young age. Two of the things I love doing a collaboration, mhm mhm.
The different design aesthetics of the two is what interests me most. Love to see what comes from this.

 

[Monsieur]

Looking Great!
:A

 

[mirrra]

some more
http://www.fashion-p.com

i'm so curious to see more of bag-dresses like the red one above...

 

[Salvatore]

Wow. I absolutely love Yohji to death. It's all construction! And a bag dress? Innovative!

 

[skot4mc]

thank you mirrra!

 

[Monmonde]

I totally love everything in #13... gorgeous

 

[lcm]

I yohji

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Pretty nifty. I'm not particularly enthralled with wearing my bags, it's a bit too field/hunting gear to me.

 

[Zazie]

Thank you mirrra! I like that YY added a lot of layered construction to the "storage" concept while keeping it pure, especially in that bag dress. The wearable bags, though, were already trendy in the mid-90s when a number of Belgians were designing them, so they look deja-vu. That red dress IMO will be a hit, and I'm eager to see it in the MD store.

Greetings, Avantster, another Mandarina Duck "baby". Incidentally, have you seen the Mandarina Duck store in Paris? That's my favourite - it is designed by NL, a group of cool, nice young Dutch architects.

 

[Whitelinen]

I love Yamamoto, but I am not sure about these bags. Especially the red one seems very beautiful, but I am not sure how practical these are. I don't think I fully get the idea, I need bigger pictures to see them well.