Yohji Yamamoto: The Poet of Black Who Taught the World That Shadows Have Shape
Yohji Yamamoto has been making clothes in black for over 50 years. The fashion world has finally stopped asking why and started treating his archive as the canon it is.
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For five decades, Yohji Yamamoto has pursued a single idea: clothing as protection, movement, and the space between fabric and body. His 1981 Paris debut presented a vision of womenswear antithetical to everything Paris believed about fashion. The 2024 retrospective at the Musee de la Mode catalysed a dramatic repricing. A 1986 black wool coat estimated at 1,200 EUR sold for 4,800 EUR. European buyers are flying to Tokyo with empty suitcases. Collectors say: buy the pieces that look most wrong on the hanger.
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