Yohji Yamamoto

About this book

As one of the most mentally rigorous designers working in fashion Yohji Yamamoto creates garments that can be intellectualsometimes even difficultyet always beautiful. Yamamotos free-spirited world is explored here via i-D magazines archives starting back in the 1980s including his adoration for women and the female form the painful process of creating anti-fashion through fashion and how his timeless utilitarian designs can be both avant-garde and classic at once. Packed into 120 pages is biographical and personal information as well as imagery from over 30 years of i-Ds history with images from photographers including Paolo Roversi Max Vadukul and Nick Knight plus interviews with Jamie Huckbody Holly Shackleton and Terry Jones.