MDIS Blog

Main Menu

MENUMENU
  • Home
  • Topics
        • Business & Management
        • Career Management
        • College
        • Engineering
        • Event
        • Fashion & Design
        • Health & Nursing
        • Information Technology
        • Languages
        • Life Sciences
        • Lifestyle
        • MDC
        • Media & Communications
        • Psychology
        • Safety Management
        • Tourism & Hospitality
        • Uncategorized
  • Campus
  • Student Life
  • Preview Sessions
  • + Become A Contributor

logo

Header Banner

MDIS Blog

MENUMENU
  • Home
  • Topics
        • Business & Management
        • Career Management
        • College
        • Engineering
        • Event
        • Fashion & Design
        • Health & Nursing
        • Information Technology
        • Languages
        • Life Sciences
        • Lifestyle
        • MDC
        • Media & Communications
        • Psychology
        • Safety Management
        • Tourism & Hospitality
        • Uncategorized
  • Campus
  • Student Life
  • Preview Sessions
Fashion & Design
Home›Fashion & Design›Fashion by Yohji Yamamoto

Fashion by Yohji Yamamoto

By MDIS
16th October 2018
3596
0
Share:
fashion sept
Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme SS12

Figure 1: Yohji Yamamoto Pour Homme SS12

The Figure 1 above is a runway shot of a model wearing wide culottes that closely resemble a skirt. To the uninitiated, wide culottes might be a metaphor for a skirt. In reality, the cut is a specific hakama pants worn by Japanese men in the field of aikido made famous by Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of traditional Japanese art of aikido (Figure 2).

Traditional Aikido Clothing

Figure 2: Traditional Aikido Clothing

These common terms appear in fashion retailers online as it is necessary to catalogue and define the garments they stock for the ease of the consumer. Any process of cataloguing requires categories (Cabonero, 2013) and when those categories are binary and leave no room for vagueness, there is no allowance for anything that falls out of the specific categories. This categorisation causes designers to design within set boundaries, rejecting the categorisation will invoke creative outcomes like the ones produced by Kawakubo. Yamamoto has managed to find a middle ground that appeals to his market while keeping garments uniquely deconstructed.

Figure 3: Yohji Yamamoto SS15

For the Spring/Summer 2015 season, Yamamoto designed garments that were able to tie and cinch with rope and strings. For the runway, the rope and strings were let loose and the garments looked like it was falling apart as seen in Figure 3. It was in essence a story of a woman coming undone in a sensual way. The ornaments dangled while revealing parts of the body.

Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto

In Figure 4, it is seen that his illustration style involves only the key essentials of his design methodology being shape and silhouette. Every other detail is taken out, button placements, a face, hems and even the existence of layered garments. The notion of the garment itself is bare, it could be a figure wearing an overcoat standing sideways or a figure wearing a dress holding on to a walking cane with the left hand. This ill-defined illustration allows Yamamoto to be flexible in creation. If the ‘Evaluation’ stage of the Basic Cycle of Design claims properties have to be compared with the corresponding desired properties in the design specification (i.e. from illustration to final product) and in doing so, there should always be differences and it more often than not excels in making the product creatively unique (Roozenburg and Eekels, 1995). In doing so, Yamamoto has created unique garments that while follow a structure, unlike Kawakubu, still introducing a unique flair.

 

 

TagsfashionYohji Yamamoto
0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
MDIS

MDIS

Founded in 1956, the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) is Singapore’s oldest not-for-profit professional institute for lifelong learning. MDIS has two main subsidiaries: Management Development Institute of Singapore Pte Ltd which oversees its Singapore academic operations, and MDIS International Pte Ltd which focuses on MDIS’ globalisation strategy. MDIS offers internationally-accredited courses in Business and Management, Engineering, Fashion, Health and Nursing, Information Technology, Languages and Education, Life Sciences, Media and Communications, Psychology, Tourism and Hospitality Management, and Safety and Environmental Management. These programmes are offered in collaboration with renowned universities in the United Kingdom.

Related articles More from author

  • fashionrunway
    Fashion & DesignFeatured Full Width SliderFeatured Post

    Social Media on the Fashion Runway for the millennials

    8th September 2017
    By MDIS
  • Mobile Shopping
    Fashion & DesignFeatured Post

    Trends in mobile shopping: Key findings from the MasterCard Mobile Shopping Survey

    8th November 2017
    By MDIS
  • May fashion
    Fashion & DesignFeatured BK Row

    Yohji Yamamoto

    28th June 2018
    By MDIS
  • Fashion Retailers
    Fashion & DesignFeatured Full Width SliderFeatured Post

    7 Tips on Customer Experience for Retailers

    30th September 2017
    By MDIS
  • Fashion & Design

    What’s Trending: Tie-Dye

    17th June 2019
    By MDIS
  • Fashion & Design

    High Street Fashion x Mass Market Collaborations: H&M

    16th July 2019
    By MDIS

Leave a reply Cancel reply

You may also like

  • language school
    Languages

    Creative and Collaborative Skills for the 21st Century Success

  • Making meaning during a pandemic
    Featured BK RowMedia & CommunicationsUncategorized

    Making Meaning During a Pandemic: Singapore Cancer Society Interschool Competition 2020

  • Internet thing
    Featured Full Width SliderInformation Technology

    What if people could connect with objects too?

Categories

  • Business & Management (26)
  • Campus (5)
  • Career Management (22)
  • College (17)
  • Engineering (11)
  • Event (32)
  • Fashion & Design (34)
  • Featured BK Row (64)
  • Featured BK Video (10)
  • Featured Full Width Slider (57)
  • Featured Post (83)
  • Health & Nursing (5)
  • Information Technology (29)
  • Languages (17)
  • Life Sciences (24)
  • Lifestyle (8)
  • MDC (14)
  • Media & Communications (29)
  • Psychology (8)
  • Safety Management (8)
  • Student Life (15)
  • Tourism & Hospitality (26)
  • Uncategorized (11)

Follow us on Instagram

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: No connected account.

Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to connect an account.

TAGS

  • AI algorithm
  • fashion designers
  • MDIS Alumni
  • begin with the end in mind
  • innovation
  • Immersion programmes
  • artifical intelligent technology
  • Health & Nursing
  • productivity
  • digital communication
  • MDIS Events
  • covid-19 jobs
  • Fashion Design
  • social media
  • Study environment
  • nursing degree in Singapore
  • MDIS School of Fashion and Design
  • fashion trend
  • Tourism and Hospitality
  • stephen r covey
  • life sciences
  • climate change
  • safety environment
  • biomedical sciences
  • nursing course
  • Artificial intelligence
  • marketing
  • studying tips
  • Digitalisation
  • 7 habits of highly effective people
THINK SUCCESS. THINK MDIS.
Copyright© 2022. MDIS Blog. All Rights Reserved.
     
Where lifelong learning begins