TASCHEN Chronicles 30 Years of Yohji Yamamoto

New to TASCHEN’s fashion titles, this 120-page hardcover chronicles 30 artful years of anti-fashion

New to TASCHEN‘s fashion titles, this 120-page hardcover chronicles 30 artful years of anti-fashion history in the life of Yohji Yamamoto. Packed with biographical and personal information, images from over three decades of i-D history by photographers including Paolo Roversi, Max Vadukul and Nick Knight, alongside interviews with Jamie Huckbody, Holly Shackleton and Terry Jones, the book thoroughly explores the great Japanese designer’s creative world. Beginning right back in the 1980s, it examines his adoration for women and the female form, the painful process of creating anti-fashion through fashion, and how his timeless utilitarian designs are both avant-garde and classic all at once.

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