Yohji Yamamoto
By: Ligaya Salazar, ed
Contributors: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: V&A Publishing; Victoria & Albert Museum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781851776276
Subjects: Fashion design; Kleding; Interviews; Fashion; Fashion designers
Description: Yohji Yamamoto is one of fashion's continual innovators and this book offers an insight into his working approach and relationships with other creative practitioners. It places his work in context and includes an insightful interview with him, as well as a round table discussion with some of his key collaborators.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum 12 March - 10 July 2011, curated by Ligaya Salazar.  The V&A exhibition is a retrospective of the work of visionary Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto. Conceived as a site-specific installation with its core in Gallery 38 and small interventions throughout the V&A, Yamamoto's menswear collections will be included in the display of his work for the first time. Each space will take its own meaning within the narrative of the exhibition which explores Yohji Yamamoto's design world.

"This publication is intended to add different perspectives to the exhibition by inviting close collaborators, informed outsiders and the designer himself to explore aspects of Yohji Yamamoto's work"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 186).
Table of contents: title: With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future  -- Ligaya Salazar -- A; title: sartorial revolutionary  -- Yuniya Kawamura; title: Like finding a lost wedding ring  -- Yohji Yamamoto in conversation with Ligaya Salazar; title: Yohji Yamamoto and the museum: a contemporary fashion narrative  -- Alexis Romano; title: Light, wafting through the air  -- Masao Nihei; title: There can be no hesitation  -- Max Vadukul in conversation with Terry Jones; title: Year zero -- a roundtable discussion with Marc Ascoli, Nick Knight and Peter Saville, chaired by Magdalene Keaney.