Paris Fashion: Yohji Yamamoto's Generous Play on Proportion
February 28, 2006 | Levent OZLER
Japan'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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