Perfect for the Girl Who Likes Her Hose-Iery

Summary

---

NOTHING is ever what it seems at the Paris shows - nowhere more than at Yohji Yamamoto. The iconic Japanese designer always shrouds his clothes with layers of meaning and likes to turn convention on its head.

The 61-year-old's brilliant collection started straightforwardly enough with his signature reworking of dress shirts and coattails into origami shapes while his models wore silver glitter eyeshadow and multi-shaded steps of hair (pictured below). But when dresses wrapped in coils of leather that looked distinctly like garden hosepipes, shirts with jagged dinosaur-like shapes and outfits top- to-toe in camouflage print hit the catwalk, it all seemed to get rather confusing. What could it all mean?

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Perfect for the Girl Who Likes Her Hose-Iery

"It's not about war," said a...

See the full content of this document

---