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Yohji Yamamoto Runway Review | Fashion Week Fall 2013
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Yohji Yamamoto Fall 2013

What does a fashion show smell like?
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Yohji Yamamoto Runway Review | Fashion Week Fall 2013

What does a fashion show smell like? Yohji Yamamoto's Fall 2013 on Friday was scented with the fragrance he's set to launch this Fall, and guests of the show took home a set of six of the designer's scents.

Whether that clever bit of marketing came from Yamamoto or his investors at Integral Corp., which saved the company from bankruptcy in 2009, was unclear. But the clothes themselves, most of them black, were all Yamamoto. The designer played The Beatles' "Cry Baby Cry" while models walked out in three-piece suits, generous shirts and trousers, and a few dresses covered in small, black, pyramid-shaped pieces of fabric. There were a few spots of color, though: two dresses combined dusty shades of black and brown, while knit sweaters and skirts in purple, yellow, red, blue, and orange trotted out toward the end of the show.

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Yohji Yamamoto Spring 2013 | Runway
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Yohji Yamamoto Spring 2013

Yohji Yamamoto has confessed that he doesn't really care whether or not anyone understands his work, and that nonchalance was apparent during his multilayered outing for Spring 2013.
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Yohji Yamamoto Spring 2013 | Runway

Yohji Yamamoto has confessed that he doesn't really care whether or not anyone understands his work, and that nonchalance was apparent during his multilayered outing for Spring 2013. There were, by turns, references to military dressing, Amelia Earhart, Christian Dior's Bar jacket, and the kinds of light sarongs normally reserved for casual days at the beach — paired, of course, with asymmetrical blazers in a dark gray metallic fabric.

That asymmetry, which has always been at the top of Yamamoto's list of talking points, was present throughout this collection, injecting the rather reserved color palette of gray, khaki, black, and cream with interest.

Of course being an individual and making clothes that will sell aren't mutually exclusive. Yamamoto offered a few solid answers to the trends of the moment by way of a variety of sheer pieces and a few tops that showed off the models' midriffs.

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Y-3 Spring 2013 | Runway
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Y-3 Spring 2013

"In the world right now, fashion is sh*t," said Yohji Yamamoto backstage at his 10th anniversary show for Y-3.
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Y-3 Spring 2013 | Runway

"In the world right now, fashion is sh*t," said Yohji Yamamoto backstage at his 10th anniversary show for Y-3. "It's too sexy, it’s too cheap-looking. I want the future — new street fashion."

What's new for Yamamoto is a selection of refreshed classics that will undoubtedly help move the sportswear conversation forward without necessarily reinventing the wheel. The garments themselves spoke to a refined athleticism — some in straightforward black and white, others wildly multicolored. The women's clothing, from double-breasted jackets to elegant printed dresses, was cleanly tailored, but sporty enough to perform if the occasion called for it. The men's clothing at times carried a comfortable slouch, most noticeable in an oversize short sleeve mesh hoodie.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the collection, though, were the many ways Yamamoto used the iconic Adidas three-stripe logo: everything from women's blazers and knee-high socks to men's trousers and printed t-shirts were decorated with it.

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Yohji Yamamoto to Direct First Feature Film
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Yohji Yamamoto to Release First Feature Film in 2014

Yohji Yamamoto will follow in Tom Ford's footsteps when he directs a movie slated for release in 2014 — but don't expect him to design the costumes for it.
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Yohji Yamamoto will follow in Tom Ford's footsteps when he directs a movie slated for release in 2014 — but don't expect him to design the costumes for it.

In an interview with WWD, Yamamoto said he's overseeing the general creative aspects of the film — whose name and theme are being kept under wraps — but he's not going to be in charge of it on a granular level. Yamamoto has hired someone to write the film's script, which isn't based on his life. He also said he sees designing fashion and designing costumes as two distinct professions. Whether that means he'll hire someone else to make the costumes was unclear.

"I don’t want to kill the characters of the actors and actresses with my ego," he said. "[Costume designers] have to know which fashions and which trends were running at which time, so their knowledge of past clothing is sometimes better than ours."

Yamamoto has designed costumes for films in the past. He made the clothes for Takeshi Kitano's film Dolls and also made some 500 costumes for Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World in the early '90s.

Yohji Yamamoto Runway 2012 Fall
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Yohji Yamamoto Fall 2012

>> For Fall 2012, Yohji Yamamoto offered up something new: sexiness.
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Yohji Yamamoto Runway 2012 Fall

>> For Fall 2012, Yohji Yamamoto offered up something new: sexiness. It came in the form of body-con silhouettes, asymmetrical draping, and skin-exposing slits. Military jackets and a punched-up palette of primary hues provided a sense of sporty confidence, as did the combat boots and dip-dyed hair that accompanied each look.

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Over 3,000 Fans Cheer on Yohji Yamamoto's Menswear Show in Japan
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Over 3,000 Fans Cheer on Yohji Yamamoto's Menswear Show in Japan

Returning to the city where he got his start, Yohji Yamamoto presented his men's line in Tokyo yesterday with a crowd of 3,200 watching from the city's 1964 Olympic stadium.
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Returning to the city where he got his start, Yohji Yamamoto presented his men's line in Tokyo yesterday with a crowd of 3,200 watching from the city's 1964 Olympic stadium. “This is a kind of compensation for my absence from Japan. I’m sorry I was absent for 20 years,” Yamamoto said of coming home after seasons showing in Paris. His country provided inspiration for this collection, and Yamamoto made statements backstage about the importance of beauty, quality, and creativity over commerce and economic power. Of the fast fashion phenomenon, he told WWD, "I don’t think it’s a threat, I would say: 'Let it go. Go to hell.'"

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Fashion in 50 Seconds 03/11/10 Matthew Williamson For Bulgari, Yohji Yamamoto Back on the Runway
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Fashion in 50 Seconds 03/11/10 Matthew Williamson For Bulgari, Yohji Yamamoto Back on the Runway

Five weeks after delivering her fourth child, Heidi Klum rocks a white Cushnie et Ochs body con dress for Marie Claire.
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Five weeks after delivering her fourth child, Heidi Klum rocks a white Cushnie et Ochs body con dress for Marie Claire.

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With Phoebe Philo at the helm, Celine is shedding its reputation as one of LVMH's most troubled brands.

Style.com's Dirk Standen discusses the future of fashion with Purple Fashion's Olivier Zahm.

Matthew Williamson is designing a capsule collection for Bulgari to launch spring 2011.

Whitney Port presented a fall 2010 collection in Miami as part of a group show with GenArt's Fresh Faces.

After filing for bankruptcy last year and canceling his menswear shows, Yohji Yamamoto will present a runway collection for men in Tokyo on April 1.