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...Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto creates the sort of high-art apparel often referred to as innovative, cerebral and, on occasion, unwearable. Only the particularly adventurous--and wealthy--are likely to don his elaborately constructed designs, with their asymmetric hemlines and exaggeratedly large collars. But some of his most coveted offerings of late are supremely practical. Last year Yamamoto teamed up with Adidas to design a line of sneakers, and the results--slip-ons in floral patterns or brocades, for example--are comfortable and versatile enough to wear with his own collections or even jeans from the Gap. Of course...
Forget about speed, sweat and ankle support--this year's hot sneakers earn their price tag by scoring points at the cocktail party instead of on the court. Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto has teamed up with Adidas to produce six striking athletic shoes. The "Boxing Boot," shown here, offers shin protection; the smooth, shiny "Tenet" is available with or without a kimono-inspired flower on the forefoot...
Critics and store buyers have come to view fashion shows by Japanese designers - including Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo for Comme des GarCons - as moments of calm and intellectual stimulation in fashion weeks too often filled with mundane clothes and headline-grabbing shock theatricals. Yet despite the dramatic impact of the great Japanese designers over the past 20 years, they remain niche players in the industry. Although no one disputes the artistry and creative brilliance of the major Japanese talents, young Americans and Brits are the ones who have been named to take over the great Paris fashion houses...
...than his variegated talents, that make Beat Japan's man of the moment. Beat Takeshi has become the coolest kid in the gigantic gako (high school) that is Japan, and everyone wants to be just like him. He's sitting there, unflappable and detached and looking sharp in a Yohji Yamamoto suit amid the third-rate chaos swirling around him. That's how most Japanese want to see themselves. Their nation has become an economic and political farce. Feckless, forgettable Prime Ministers come and go. The moribund economy has come to resemble more the surreal vision of Salvador Dali than...
...draw comparisions to the surrealism of Magritte and Escher. Yet fashion is hardly a material imitation of the beaux-arts. Of the two forces blurring the distinction between haute couture and prt--porter, it is the upstarts who are keeping fashion alive. From the beautiful origami poetry of Yohji Yamamoto to the jaw-droppingly precise seduction of a Richard Tyler gown to the eclectic utilitarian sensibilities of Helmut Lang (three designers who have yet to fashion a perfume), these younger collections have proven to be high fashion without the pretentious haute couture label, living proof that fashion will live...