Johji Yamamoto

Johji Yamamoto 

Yohji Yamamoto- Born in October 3rd 1943 in Tokyo Japan. Noted as on of the most influential designer of his time and has even influenced his daughter Limi Yamamoto has followed in her father footsteps by becoming a fashion designer with her brand LIMI Fue where you can see and element of his design. After going to Paris too peruse his career as a designer by selling his sketches but because his designs were so different to anything anyone had seen as his designers were Avante garde and masculine no one was interested.So he went back to Tokyo and started designing a bigger and better collection and finally got noticed by a designer and as he got more work he was able to start his own company. In the 1970 the world was going through an economic crises and it was know as the "great depression" also as the cold war was continuing many protests fighting for peace and gay and woman right. Yamamoto designs suggested influence from this terrible period as he used dark colours, oversized silhouettes and draping and heavy fabrics maybe suggesting the dark cloud of weight that hanged over the world at this period of time. My favourite thing about Yamamoto designs was that he wanted to change people perception on how men and woman should be dressed and he designed a lot of woman garments with a masculine edge with the over sizing and darks colours and the rough texture and heavy weighted fabric and used embroidery on male garments.Some of his garments have a hint of influence from traditional Japanese fashion as he used kimono shapes and robe garment then switches them up by using draping and interesting pattern cutting. Also a key point element for Yamamotos work is quality rather than fast fashion high street clothing he want to make clothes that last and high quality  so the price the buyer pays translate the quality.