Ensemble

Designer Yohji Yamamoto Japanese

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Yohji Yamamoto imbued the Japanese avant-garde deconstructionist approach to tailoring with a more romantic, historicist vision, as in this bustle coatdress with skirt with drawstring gathers, which he presented for fall/winter 1995–96. The black-hued collection mixed feminine dress elements from the late nineteenth century such as the bustle with masculine tailoring accents from the Edwardian era, giving rise to a new silhouette, which embodies the concept of Walter Benjamin's Tigersprung (tiger's leap), fashion's leap into the past to create an ever-changing present.

Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese

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Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese
Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese
Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese
Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese
Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese
Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese
Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese
Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese
Ensemble, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), (a) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, plastic; (b) nylon, (c) wool, synthetic fiber, cotton, Japanese

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