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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.
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