(Paris) Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto celebrated Thursday, in an atmosphere of felt hats and large vagabond coats, the bohemian spirit and paraded his lifelong friends, such as filmmaker Wim Wenders, in this ode to artistic nonchalance .
It is “a very special fashion show, like a family reunion”, in the presence of friends and muses of the house, underlined those around him, adding that the 80-year-old designer “does not like people to talk about his age” .
Zinédine Zidane was in his element in the front row, in a black cargo pants suit and strapped jacket, and wedge booties from Y-3, the Japanese’s sports line in collaboration with Adidas, which the former number 10 of the Blues represents.
Yohji Yamamoto invited German director Wim Wenders, who made a documentary about him, to the podium for a few minutes of very cinematic style.
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The silhouettes were all topped with long open coats, shirts as if patched, for half-dandy, half-rogue looks, evoking the series Peaky Blinders.
Also participating, mature figures in the line-up of young models, were art photographers Max Vadukul, composer Warren Ellis and 61-year-old senior model Marie-Sophie Wilson.
The silhouettes were all topped with long open coats, shirts as if patched, for half-dandy, half-rogue looks, evoking the series Peaky Blinders.
The show mixed a very suave, folk soundtrack, partly sung by the designer himself.
Yohji Yamamoto’s asymmetrical and dark creations revolutionized Parisian style, the city where the couturier settled in the 1980s.
Having lived between Tokyo and Paris for a long time, Yamamoto has won countless awards during his long career, during which he also designed costumes for Takeshi Kitano films and jerseys for the All Blacks and Real Madrid.