Yohji Yamamoto
Costume & make-up · b. 1943 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics.
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MovieIn the early 1990s, with the economic crisis, the first Gulf War and the devastation caused by AIDS, fashion reflected the times. It was sombre, desperate and sometimes violent. Clothing underwent deconstruction and recycling, and fashion shows became fashion performances.
Antifashion
2012
Movie8.3DocumentaryTV MovieThis film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.
Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996 · 3 votes
Movie6.3DocumentaryWim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.
MovieThe visionary designer takes his Nissan Cedric for a spin around Tokyo, and meditates on fashion, auto design, and rituals
MovieDocumentaryYohji Yamamoto | Dressmaker is an intimate and delving portrait of one of fashion's most revered stalwarts. For a man who creates clothing as armour, Yamamoto opens up as never before to share the core values that shape his life and work. Interviews with family, friends, employees and confidants reveal further insight about this complex and enigmatic figure.