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  • chameleon
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2008
    • 387


    s/s 01


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    • chameleon
      Senior Member
      • Jun 2008
      • 387

      Thanks all, I'm glad you appreciate it. It's pretty mindblowing to think about the astonishing body of work the man has created over the years.

      ^will also chime in with whitney's comment, I'd love to see more. The 85 collection looks fantastic. There are only a select few pictures of the collections in the book, I posted pretty much every picture from it (only did some slight editing of the final part of the book, from the more recent collections that already have a lot of coverage online).

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      • chameleon
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2008
        • 387

        Yeah I was very happy to see these news. Can't wait to see what he makes of his return.

        Originally posted by Avantster
        Thinking of picking up anything from this season, wire?
        I was thinking along these lines too; did anyone here pick anything up from the ss10 collection, or are you all waiting for the sales? After having the opportunity to see the collection in person, I started to like it a lot more. A few standouts for me would be the multibutton shirt, the rough "shirt-jacket" with front pockets (i think most of the "rougher" white shirts are great), the stiff grey cotton suit and the super light cotton blend black suit (voluminous trousers and faded print just above the breast pocket). Plus some of the footwear.

        I have also slightly fallen in love with the color block suit from ss09 (first look). I believe you have this Avantster? How do you like it, and could you comment on the sizing for this one? I don't have any real experience with this particular season.
        Last edited by chameleon; 05-18-2010, 01:44 AM.

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        • rider
          eyes of the world
          • Jun 2009
          • 1560

          the retrospective pictures are incredible. thanks for taking the time to post those.

          i'm waiting for a certain limi dress to be marked down. it is along the same vein as dads ss99 collection.

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          • TarHeart
            Senior Member
            • Jun 2009
            • 252

            I would also like to thank you, chameleon. It is very nice of you to share those pictures.
            I really appreciate it!

            Does anyone know the Yamamoto-stores will go on sale, in Japan? Anyone knows when general sales period occur? I'm a poor student and I don't have the money to put out for retail prices. I shouldn't even be considering buying anything from Yamamoto. But what do you do? I'm just asking.

            I'm really happy that he will return to Paris. Great news. Somehow I feel that is where his fashion belong, and should be displayed. I hope the design work will revive, and show more inspiration than last seasons. Not that last season was very bad, but not very good either, in my opinion. Looking at the retrospective photographs, the clothes really show more inspiration and soul.

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            • chameleon
              Senior Member
              • Jun 2008
              • 387

              Originally posted by wire.artist
              I could build an equally powerful sequence of images of he's more recent work to continue chamaleon's row, if you pic the best of each collection it's pretty easy.

              With hard work and a trained eye I'm building a pretty decent collection with "little" money. I like that I'm forced to dig into old collections instead of buying only the latest offering. Not being a silverspooner trains the eye and make you aware of how wonderful is to be forced to choice because it implies creativity, it's not a plain act of consumerism.
              This is so true. With some digging, a lot of patience, and many tough choices, I can definitely see how you can build a great YY wardrobe without being a "baller". For me, sort of at the start of more focused buying (although I've been watching it from afar for many years) it's difficult sometimes to not be a little bit opportunistic and go for pieces that you might not need but fits, are relatively cheap and suddenly available. it's always a tough choice.

              I'd actually love to see you (or anyone else) make a sort of short "best of" of his mens collection from the last decade, in this thread. I think his "recent" work is very very strong.

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              • chameleon
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2008
                • 387

                Originally posted by wire.artist
                Yohji san has changed his price tags lately, more on the 100k yen range per blazer than +175k yen as usual. So sales are gonna be cool.
                Yeah, the cutaway with the faded cyrillic print is about 145-150k yen (not sure what the long jacket of the same look is) but about every other blazer I've checked is below 100k I think. The grey stiff cotton jacket is a hair above 90k, some of the other one (navy with blue pinstripes) touch closer to 60k if I'm not completely mistaken (not entirely sure about these figures though)

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                • chameleon
                  Senior Member
                  • Jun 2008
                  • 387

                  Does anyone have the rewind/forward book, and can give some verdict? I understand the format is slightly smaller than A5 size? Pictures only, or intersected with some text/interview?
                  Last edited by chameleon; 06-11-2010, 04:55 PM.

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                  • chameleon
                    Senior Member
                    • Jun 2008
                    • 387

                    love this pic

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                    • Avantster
                      ¤¤¤
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 1983

                      Originally posted by chameleon View Post
                      Does anyone have the rewind/forward book, and can give some verdict? I understand the format is slightly smaller than A5 size? Pictures only, or intersected with some text/interview?
                      It's about A5 size, photos only - it was produced as a celebration of Yohji's twenty years in fashion and contains all the womenswear images (non runway) that were produced from 1995-2000 (238 photos in total, from photographers Craig McDean, Paolo Roversi, David Sims, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin). Worth it if you're a collector of his work but I wouldn't pay too much for it.
                      let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.

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                      • chameleon
                        Senior Member
                        • Jun 2008
                        • 387

                        ^thanks for your input. I was bidding on a copy yesterday but was overbid and decided to not go very high for this. I did however manage to snatch up a copy of A Magazine Curated By YY, which I was happy with considering I've been wanting to read it for some time now.

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                        • Avantster
                          ¤¤¤
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 1983

                          A much better buy you'll find, beautiful A4 sized photographs and a well curated collection of interviews, conversations and essays. There's even a recipe from Yohji's mother for Oshiruko - she travels with the Yohji team and prepares it for them every season when they arrive in Paris from Tokyo.
                          let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.

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                          • shawn
                            Senior Member
                            • Apr 2007
                            • 223

                            Recommended for A magazine by Yohji Yamamoto as well. Stunning photography cover and inside. Interesting reading.

                            I also got the A5 size book from Amazon, nice photo as well but wish its size was A4 or bigger for sake of these photo only. good luck.

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                            • chameleon
                              Senior Member
                              • Jun 2008
                              • 387

                              Since this thread is in designer archive now, maybe we can bring up an old collection?

                              Just noticed this video of the SS02 runway show, so I thought I'd post it here in case someone else missed it too. Or just for archival reasons.



                              It's always nice to see these shows in motion, rather than low res still pictures.

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                              • Faust
                                kitsch killer
                                • Sep 2006
                                • 37852

                                thank you, chameleon. the more, the merrier.

                                Does anyone know if the Yohji biography will come out in the US? I emailed Ludion without success.
                                Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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