The second, thinner volume is a roadmap of his collections beginning in 1981. Being a student of design in the 1980's led me directly to the Japanese: Yohji, Rei Kawakubo, Kenzo...they had descended upon Paris. I was taken with their intellectual and conceptual design, their battle with beauty and their negation of the traditional female form. Black was a clean slate to use as a springboard for shape, form and texture. I have since fallen in love with the Belgians but nothing can change my devotion to Yohji. See this movie if you're able: Notebook on Cities and Clothes by Wim Wenders. And if possible, find a copy of this book...it's out of print and I recently saw a copy on line for $500. Anyway, I'll share a few pages of my precious inspiration here and if you come and visit the atelier, I'll show it to you in person:
"I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things
humans make, I want to see the scars, failure, disorder,
distortion. If I can feel those things in the works of
others, then I like them. Perfection is a kind of order.
Like overall harmony and so on...They are things someone
forces onto a thing. A free human being does not desire
such things. And yet, I get the feeling there are a lot
of women who do not seek freedon: women who wear
symmetrical clothes." - YOHJI YAMAMOTO
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