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  • sky cracks open
    Junior Member
    • Nov 2009
    • 18

    Originally posted by MASUGNEN
    Many of the pictures above and others from classic collections are available in François Baudot's fine Yohji Yamamoto (Éditions Assouline, Paris 1997; English translation Assouline Publishing, New York 2005).
    The book that I have has 2 volumes. One of the volumes I didn't post any pictures from, and seems to have a lot of photos, in mostly chronological order, from 1981-2002. Are those available in that book as well?

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    • sky cracks open
      Junior Member
      • Nov 2009
      • 18

      here are a few more










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      • sky cracks open
        Junior Member
        • Nov 2009
        • 18

        These are from the other volume. I probably won't take any more pictures of this volume because it doesn't lay to an open page as well, so it damages the binding and pictures are more difficult to take.






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        • Lumina
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2009
          • 277

          Waw, thanks for the pictures ! I'd love to get that book but it's always so expensive, even on yahoo. Hope I'll get it one day. In the meantime I've ordered the Baudot book !

          I love these pictures too (especially the long long sleeved top on the last one) :




          I don't remember where they're from, picked up somewhere on internet.

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          • Buckwheat
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2006
            • 409

            Thanks Lumina.

            Some old ads..








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            • Buckwheat
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 409

              I like this one

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              • Fade to Black
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2008
                • 5340

                and I don't have any pictorials to share, but since this is the YY thread I wanted to recall that scene in Wim Wenders' doc which is one probably all of us could relate to -

                When Yohji is applying his signature to the plaque in front of the Aoyama flagship...and he keeps erasing and re-doing it, until finally settling with one that probably wasn't the most perfect looking but somehow it felt right to stop at that exact try. My favorite moment in that film.
                www.matthewhk.net

                let me show you a few thangs

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                • Buckwheat
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 409

                  this one will do then FtB

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                  • this is one of my favourite photos ever. http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/6004/ss199802.jpg

                    I love inez van lamsweerde & vinoodh matadin

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                    • Lumina
                      Senior Member
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 277

                      Thanks Buckwheat for the ads !

                      I received my Baudot book yesterday ! A few quotes I liked :

                      "People wear my clothes to make a statement".


                      "Off the so-called arts - painting, sculpture, etc-, only very few can influence people directly in the way fashion can, or music. Fashion is a unique and fundamental form of communication, that has to do with the feelings of a generation wearing the clothes it has chosen".

                      "If fashion is clothes, then it is not indispensable. But if fashion is a way of looking at our daily lives, then it is very important indeed".

                      This last quote makes me think about the title of his exhibition in Paris, Juste des Vêtements.
                      This title always intrigued me. I understand that it reveals his modesty towards his work, "only clothes". For me this title also means that it shouldn't be taken too seriously. It's just clothes, let's be free, have fun, dare.
                      But on the other hand, I think his clothes are so much than clothes. As the first quote say, wearing is clothes is making a statement. His clothes are not only clothes, there is an entiere philosophy attached to it. A vision of the body, a statement about what beauty is or isn't, the right to be imperfect, the purity of black, a kind of zen feeling... So many things that makes his clothes so much more than just clothes to me.

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                      • Faust
                        kitsch killer
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 37852

                        BTW, Yamamoto and Ferragamo have partnered to make shoes back in March (I don't think we've discussed this). File under WTF.
                        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                        • tweeds
                          Senior Member
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 246

                          people looking for Talking To Myself: believe the Antwerp store has copies, possibly a better price than Amazon, but get in touch and see...
                          SITE | TWITTER

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                          • laika
                            moderator
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 3787

                            Originally posted by Faust View Post
                            BTW, Yamamoto and Ferragamo have partnered to make shoes back in March (I don't think we've discussed this). File under WTF.
                            but they are so adorable.

                            ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                            • MASUGNEN
                              Senior Member
                              • Feb 2009
                              • 387

                              Originally posted by Lumina View Post
                              "If fashion is clothes, then it is not indispensable. But if fashion is a way of looking at our daily lives, then it is very important indeed".

                              This last quote makes me think about the title of his exhibition in Paris, Juste des Vêtements. This title always intrigued me. I understand that it reveals his modesty towards his work, "only clothes". For me this title also means that it shouldn't be taken too seriously. It's just clothes, let's be free, have fun, dare. But on the other hand, I think his clothes are so much than clothes. As the first quote say, wearing is clothes is making a statement. His clothes are not only clothes, there is an entiere philosophy attached to it. A vision of the body, a statement about what beauty is or isn't, the right to be imperfect, the purity of black, a kind of zen feeling... So many things that makes his clothes so much more than just clothes to me.

                              I believe Yamamoto's true (zen) message is that "entire philosophy" etc is not anything more than "just clothes". It's all intertwined in life. He wants people to wear his clothes like they wear reality.

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                              • MASUGNEN
                                Senior Member
                                • Feb 2009
                                • 387

                                Is it true that Yamamoto and Kawakubo dated in the early 90's? Was this reflected in their respective work?

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