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