Yohji Yamamoto and "israel Fashion Art"

A Yohji Yamamoto creation in Holon Design Museum, July 14, 2012

Hi, Since I was unable to attend the official opening of Yohji Yamamoto's exhibit several days ago at the Holon Design Museum I attended it yesterday. It was very important to me to view this most exciting exhibit for several reasons. Firstly, I am a great admirer of Japan's visual culture in general and of the Paris Japanese fashion designers in particular. Besides that, in the 80s I served as vice-chairman of the Israel-Japan Friendship Association which is marking this year its 60s 
anniversary.
 . I also befriended artist Kojiro Akagi the former editor of GAP-JAPAN magazine during his visit to Israel. He attended here an international press meeting and at his request I introduced him to a number of young upcoming Israeli fashion designers about whom he published two articles in two issues of GAP-JAPAN.


Since, the Paris Japanese designers' influence on fashion was very dominant for quite a number of years - in my book "Israel Fashion Art"                       "שיכרון עיצובים - אמנות האופנה בישראל"
I devoted one of the chapters to the far-eastern influence on western fashion in general and on Israeli designers in particular. Not forgetting the classical Japanese garments, the avan-guard Paris Japanese revolutionary creations, and even today's Tokyo's street fashion which originated in their picturesque comic magazines. 


Although I was very impressed by Yamamoto's outstanding Holon's exhibit in general - the one design that I was most enchanted by was the sculptural one in the above photo. Hope you like it too.