num_pages: 192
description: Yohji Yamamoto led the Japanese fashion wave of the 1980s and 1990s into the new millennium. In October 2009 after a series of bad investments Yamamoto Inc. went bankrupt; by the end of that year the designer had inaugurated a new business and a complete reevaluation of his direction. My Dear Bomb is an outcome of this transition moment. Coauthored with Ai Mitsuda this carefully and beautifully written autobiography (with biographical interpolations by friends and collaborators) seamlessly combines extended meditations on clothing and life with Yamamoto's memories and anecdotes in short concise paragraphs. Throughout its pages we encounter Yamamoto as a tough realist unburdened by disingenuousness (I am in fact a man who may turn heartless in an instant; I desire only to settle each and every score immediately); and of course as a great designer blessed with unerring instinct for his materials (how does the cloth want to drape to sway to fall? If one keeps these things in mind and looks very carefully the fabric itself begins to speak). Illustrated with drawings by Yamamoto this open-hearted meditation offers a take on the autobiography form as imaginative as the designer's fashion wear.
language: English
title: My Dear Bomb
publisher: Ludion