Yohji Yamamoto

We have been doing a project on Yohji Yamamoto. He is en extremely talented designer and part of the emerging Japanese designers. They have been around for years but only really recognized in the past 20 years. As a group we researched Yohji’s inspirations and past collections.

We saw how he liked to use black as the major colour in his collections with accents of colours like red or blue

We made a men’s customer board seen above, which we worked out after visiting the shop in London and speaking to the staff.

Here is our mood board which we created, it’s the women’s and we wanted it to look a lot more fresh. There still would be a lot of black but have more Japanese influences with more delicate colours and details.
We then started designing clothes for our own collection. Our group went all in different ways. I went with two main trends; Mixing old and new architecture and layering clothes.I used these trends to create a collection of 10 outfits. It was for autumn winter so I used a lot of layering but had some outfits that stood out more on there own as a statement piece.

I had a go at doing some illustrations. I wasn’t so happy with how they turned out. I drew them firth by hand and scanned them into the computer and edited them a bit.