The Victoria and Albert Museum presents one of the most influential and enigmatic fashion designers of the last forty years, Yohji Yamamoto. Yamamoto is a visionary designer who has made a vital contribution to fashion, challenging traditional norms of clothing with his avant-garde style. This is his first major solo show in the UK and is an installation-based retrospective showcasing over 80 women's and menswear garments, which are most representative of his work.
When i went to london to buy my fabric i thought i may as well make the most of being there so i went to the Yohji Yamamoto exhebiton. Yamamoto is internationally renowned for challenging traditional notions of fashion by designing garments that seem oversized and unfinished, that played with ideas of gender or with fabris not normally used in fashion such as felt or neoprene and it was really interesting to see his garments up close. Other works revealed Yamamoto's unusual pattern cutting, knowledge of fashion history and sense of humore. His work is characterised by a frequent and skilful use of black, a colour that he describes as 'modest and arrogant at the same time'.
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