Yohji Yamamoto SS09 Paris

[inaya]

some closer pics

[inaya]

[Real Real]

PS i was in the yohji shop in paris last week and they are the most unfriendly bunch. Was the only shop where the assistants did not say the usual bonjour/merci au revoir, even when i said it to them!

Odd - the last time I was in Paris, I thought the people at the YY store were particularly nice.

[jcotteri]

this collection just looks better and etter.. amazing

i yohji

[Avantster]

Hauntingly beautiful...

She is nonexistent... in this world. She is my imaginary woman.
I can only see her back, her hair is blowing in the wind, and she is smoking a cigar. It's a very psychological expression.
I'm always imagining and looking at women's backs.
It means I'm missing.
I'm missing my mother.
I'm missing my love.
Missing, missing, missing... forever.
Don't go!
This is my image.
For example, when a beautiful girl looks at me in this distance, I get afraid. So when the girl is leaving, I feel more comfortable.
Don't go, don't go. I need you...

[Avantster]

That's my favourite piece/pic too.

The collection is very beautiful, elegant, languid, easy. It is also to my eyes as I think Avanster said, very much a female version of the menswear for summer. The asymetric details are almost identical.

Two reservations though - the sunglasses really jar with me, I don't think they fit with the asethetic at all. And it is a bit "yohji by numbers"; this is not particularly a problem but it is a little bit predictable. Maybe his charm is not to be a trailblazer any more, and therefore unpredictability is not relevant.

PS i was in the yohji shop in paris last week and they are the most unfriendly bunch. Was the only shop where the assistants did not say the usual bonjour/merci au revoir, even when i said it to them!

Good to see you 'round here Johnny, shame to hear about your bad experience. You'll love the Antwerp shop, I'm sure!

Agreed about the sunglasses, in fact I only really noticed after you said it that every single look has them.

[airboyair]

the sunglasses are there because...



source: WWD

[Faust]

Man, Linda Farrow is raking it in these days.

[ddohnggo]

wow, this is so sick. yohji killed it.

[Fade to Black]

i must say, at least better than Raf Simons X Linda Farrow

[drexl]

Damn, how did I not check this out sooner? Beautiful collection. The corpse-like makeup and sunglasses is giving me this "Death takes a vacation" vibe, along with the almost-skeletal hand prints and the overlock/suture stitching on the jackets.

[Fade to Black]

i wanna assemble an entourage where all we do is walk around wearing yohji and those sunglasses

[jcotteri]

i really liked some of collabs, i even liked the Linda Farrow x Raf Simons Angular Aviators, although the Linda Farrow x Veronique Branquinho Metal Aviators were a classic design and also look great..

[Fade]

Absolutely amazing i have no words to describe yohji's works in this collection. Thanks for the pics! :D

[inaya]

i wanna assemble an entourage where all we do is walk around wearing yohji and those sunglasses

haha I don't "do" sunglasses but I wear all Yohji often, can I still join?