The exhibition on starts Yohji Yamamoto from 10 Como course. The exhibition dedicated to the iconic Japanese designer set up within the spaces of the Milanese concept store guided by the vision of Tiziana Fausti. Titled Yohji Yamamoto. Letter to the future, the exhibition curated by the fashion archives teacher of theLa Sapienza University From Rome, Alessio de’Navasquesis the first after almost two decades to bring the imagery and characteristic aesthetics of the designer known as “the poet of black” back on display in the Italian territory.
«After major retrospectives like the one at Victoria & Albert museum of London in 2011, it is an honor to have the unique opportunity to host a project by Yohji Yamamoto that looks to the future and is vibrantly contemporary, dedicated to the younger generations”, commented Fausti. «Yamamoto returns to Italy after almost two decades and it is significant for us that he is in Milan and precisely at 10 Corso Como, where he was one of the seminal authors in defining the avant-garde and research identity of this place».
The exhibition within the Milanese space brings together archive items, set up without scenographic artifices, and all coming from the Yohji Yamamoto collections of different eras and seasons, from 1986 to 2024. In a path conceived as a single installation, the exhibition translates the the Japanese designer’s relationship with time conceived in an asynchronous flow of shapes, asymmetries, materials. Inaugurated today, the exhibition will remain open to the public until July 31st.
«It was an honor for me to work with one of the most extraordinary authors that fashion can count», declares the curator, de’Navasques. «Yohji Yamamoto combines a sense of Zen spirituality with the carnal and dramatic power of form. From his arrival in Paris at the beginning of the 1980s to today, his message is still essential and very strong. We are witnessing a historical moment in which, just as happened in the years of its debut in Europe, physicality seems to have freed itself from gender superstructures and stereotypes, yet we are overexposed, continually judged, as happens on social media. Yohji Yamamoto’s message is, instead, that of the body acting on clothing, through its imperfect and welcoming forms, which enclose every type of body and spirit”, he concluded. (All rights reserved)
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