Yohji Yamamoto
dal 11/3/2011 al 9/7/2011
Segnalato da
11/3/2011
Yohji Yamamoto
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The exhibition explores the work of idiosyncratic and ground-breaking designer Yohji Yamamoto. Fabric, he said, 'is everything'. This deep interest in textiles is at the heart of his approach to design. This retrospective, experienced through a series of site-specific installations throughout the V&A and beyond, includes Yamamoto's menswear for the first time.
This exhibition explores the work of idiosyncratic and ground-breaking designer Yohji Yamamoto. Fabric, he said, 'is everything'. This deep interest in textiles is at the heart of his approach to design.
Yamamoto became internationally renowned in the early eighties for challenging traditional notions of fashion by designing garments that seemed oversized, unfinished, played with ideas of gender or fabrics not normally used in fashionable attire such as felt or neoprene. Other works revealed Yamamoto's unusual pattern cutting, knowledge of fashion history and sense of humour. His work is characterised by a frequent and skilful use of black, a colour which he describes as 'modest and arrogant at the same time'.
This retrospective, experienced through a series of site-specific installations throughout the V&A and beyond, includes Yamamoto's menswear for the first time. The main exhibition space houses over 60 creations and a multi-media timeline which reveals Yamamoto's wider creative output.
As part of the retrospective, Yamamoto's work stretches further across London with satellite installations at the Wapping Project sites.
Yohji's women at Wapping Bankside
12 March - 14 May
A photographic exhibition of key photographers who have worked with Yohji Yamamoto.
Yohji making waves at Wapping Project
12 March - 14 July
A surprising and beautiful garment installation.
Press Information: Jules Wright, 020 7680 2080; jules@thewappingproject.com;
Priscilla Granozio, 020 7981 9851 press@thewappingprojectbankside.com
V&A South Kensington
Cromwell Road, London
Opening Hours 10 to 17.45 daily 10 to 22, Fridays (selected galleries remain open after 18)
Closing commences 10 minutes before time stated
Admission: £7 Full, £6 Seniors
£5 Students, 12-17 yrs old and ES40
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