He is a designer with an endless fascination for artiststhe individualism, the impulses, and the archetypes.
Tonights show progressed through movements, through scenes, through chapters, through stanzas.
And while they appeared like distinctive personages, they also conjured some essence of the designer himself.
Or else it was a series of reminiscences, like the painted pinup women surfacing from coats.
Or perhaps a montage spanning cool dudes with impeccably mussed topknots through equally cool but aging figures.
Would men consider this a badge of pride, a way of confronting reality with a smirk?
Were older but thats the only thing that changes, the photographer acknowledged backstage.
What we create is still the same.
YY and WW worked together in 1989 when the director madeNotebook, a documentary about cities and clothes.
The real surprise came from the music.
Never mind that Yamamoto is now an octogenarian, his track list leaned towards regained youth.
He is more of a romantic than he will admit.
But we see through all those meticulously deconstructed layers.
