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Paris Fashion: Yohji Yamamoto's Generous Play on ProportionJapan's Yohji Yamamoto on Sunday borrowed the staples of the male wardrobe, took them apart and imaginatively put them back together again for women next winter -- only oversized.
Cleverly playing with proportions for loose pants, coats and jackets, the unconventional designer unveiled his ready-to-wear collection on the opening day of a busy, eight-day Paris calendar.
He deliberately gave already wide or baggy trousers excess width at the waist, a jacket hung off the shoulders or had sleeves that were too long and a trilby was twice the size of the head.
But it all added up to a serenely sophisticated collection for autumn-winter 2006-07 that was softly masculine and relaxed, with laid-back music setting the tempo for the models' deliberate, steady steps.
With plenty of other tricks up his sleeve, the master of form and proportion rounded off jacket tails, draped a shawl from the shoulder or to form one side of a coat, and created a kind of trouser-skirt fusion.
As well as his signature black, he offered school blazer burgundy and navy stripes, vivid turquoise, milky white, army green or starkly ran light into dark colours.
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