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  • Fade to Black
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 5340

    I love that little doc, definitely worth acquiring for the vaults.

    Rewatched Paris, Texas last night, still struck by how much in common there is in both men's creative DNA. Yohji may be a man in black, but I find his colors strike me much more at the present moment, and in Wenders' film there is much in the way of symbolic structure and use of color that is redolent of YY, for me. I've always felt P,T captures the essence of Yohji's point of view, especially Yohji maleness, in its entirety.
    www.matthewhk.net

    let me show you a few thangs

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    • Avantster
      ¤¤¤
      • Sep 2006
      • 1983



      “For some reason, I am moved by the female form, as seen from the side, or diagonally from behind. Like a feeling of waiting to chase after and restrain something that passes by, or passes through. You could call it a feeling of “missing” something. A lingering scent is the same. A kind of feeling of longing for something. There is always an adoration for women in me which resembles the temptation I have for things that have passed me by. And so I can only see a woman as someone who passes by, a person who disappears. Therefore the “Back” is important to me. I think clothes should be made from the back, and not the front. The back supports the clothes, and so if it is not properly made, the front cannot exist.”
      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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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        Thanks, Avantster. He's absolutely right! Back is so sexy.
        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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        • todestrieb
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2009
          • 239

          You know that one scene in the Wenders where Yohji is seen redoing his signature several times in order to get it perfectly right for the boutique signage? Can't help but think of it as an amusing instance of a man's creation becoming larger than the creator himself. The world he created and built becoming larger than life, larger than his life. Rather like, albeit in a negative tone, Marx's proclamation of "I'm not a Marxist" as an attempt to distance himself from a subsection of Marxist tendencies in Europe occurring at the time.

          Serves up a nuanced layer of meaning to the Death of the Author thesis, or whatever's left of it.

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          • Fade to Black
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2008
            • 5340

            That's my favorite scene in the Wenders, the one that resonated most.
            www.matthewhk.net

            let me show you a few thangs

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            • Faust
              kitsch killer
              • Sep 2006
              • 37852

              Originally posted by todestrieb View Post
              You know that one scene in the Wenders where Yohji is seen redoing his signature several times in order to get it perfectly right for the boutique signage? Can't help but think of it as an amusing instance of a man's creation becoming larger than the creator himself. The world he created and built becoming larger than life, larger than his life. Rather like, albeit in a negative tone, Marx's proclamation of "I'm not a Marxist" as an attempt to distance himself from a subsection of Marxist tendencies in Europe occurring at the time.

              Serves up a nuanced layer of meaning to the Death of the Author thesis, or whatever's left of it.
              That's an interesting take. I've always looked at it as just Yohji being a perfectionist. Of course your signature is your signature every time you put it.
              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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              • crouka
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2007
                • 141











                mens though as you see









                courtesy chris moore

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                • rider
                  eyes of the world
                  • Jun 2009
                  • 1560

                  whenever i look at a yohji piece i find myself first noticing the back. i even use to go through the racks in the YY store right to left.

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                  • Fade to Black
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2008
                    • 5340

                    i never thought about that, but you're right. Yohji when worn looks best from behind , in movement.
                    www.matthewhk.net

                    let me show you a few thangs

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                    • MASUGNEN
                      Senior Member
                      • Feb 2009
                      • 387

                      Yes, see my shirt.

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                      • jgan85
                        Senior Member
                        • Apr 2008
                        • 337

                        ^ i loved that men's collection. not the see-through fabric on that one runway shot, but similar appliques on his mid-weight cotton shirts were ace.
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                        Xxx amateurs
                        Last edited by jgan85; 04-05-2011, 08:54 PM.

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                        • chameleon
                          Senior Member
                          • Jun 2008
                          • 387

                          ^which collection is this shirt from?

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                          • Avantster
                            ¤¤¤
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 1983

                            Quite sure that's a Y's for men shirt from a few years back, A.
                            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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                            • Fade to Black
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2008
                              • 5340

                              it's Y's from fall 2007 i believe, i used to have that shirt in black
                              Last edited by Fade to Black; 10-01-2010, 02:34 AM. Reason: it's 2007, i'm sure of it.
                              www.matthewhk.net

                              let me show you a few thangs

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                              • Lumina
                                Senior Member
                                • Dec 2009
                                • 277

                                Beautiful quote Avantster !

                                Here's a new book announced for march 2011 published by V&A museum.


                                Plus some of his work will be featured in the exhibition Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion at the Barbican (15 October 2010 - 6 February 2011).

                                Browse events from the Barbican Art Gallery, exploring art, architecture, design, fashion, photography and film.


                                Sounds promising

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