Japan: Issey Miyake is a great artist and his fashion is extremely creative, simple, basic and modern.
Issey Miyake seems to have been independent of the European and American high fashion, his design ideas can almost compete with the entire Western fashion design industry, is a new design style representing a new direction in the future.
Issey Miyake is good at cubist design, and his clothes are reminiscent of traditional Japanese clothing, but these forms of clothing have never been found in Japan.
Issey Miyake's clothes do not have a hint of commercial flavor, some are full of dream color innovation, his customer base is the eastern and Western middle class avant-garde; In Yohji Yamamoto's world, black is synonymous with eternity. Yohji Yamamoto studied fashion design in France, but he was not assimilated by the West.
Western dress concepts often use tight dresses to reflect women's beautiful curves, Yamamoto is based on kimono, by layering, draping, wrapping and other means to form a non-fixed structure of the dress concept.
Yamamoto likes to draw beauty inspiration from traditional Japanese clothing and convey fashion principles through rich combinations of colors and materials.
In the West, most human models are three-dimensional cut from the top to the bottom, Yamamoto is a two-dimensional straight line, forming an asymmetric appearance, this unique idea is the essence of Japanese traditional clothing culture, because these irregular forms are not artificial, but appear natural and smooth.
Asymmetrical necklines and hemlines are common in Yohji Yamamoto's clothing, and the brand's clothing will also follow the body movements after wearing a different look.
Instead of following Western fashion trends, Yamamoto boldly developed the essence of traditional Japanese dress culture to form an anti-fashion style.
This new idea of dress, contrary to the Western mainstream, not only gained a foothold in the fashion world, but also influenced Western designers.
The concept of beauty was extended, and the beauty of material texture triumphed over the beauty of decoration that had ruled fashion for years.
Among them, Yamamoto used hemp fabric and viscose fabric to create a unique calm and pleated effect. Good at the use of new fabrics is also a common feature of many Japanese designers.
Yohji Yamamoto's clothes are mostly black, which follows the style of Japanese culture.
Yamamoto Yohji is particularly known for men's wear, and its Y&y brand line of men's casual wear is conducive to free combination, and with a medium price strategy, won great success; Zucca's design is naive and romantic but not too fancy childish, simple and free brand purpose, Ono emphasizes the idea of "health is a kind of beauty", he does not have the usual quiet color of Japan, just with what is usually considered to be secular elements, take us to another world to appreciate his avant-garde and popular.
His design is elegant and elegant without losing its true color; In Atsuro Tayama's design works, we can see gorgeous and exquisite details and elegant and romantic style. He can combine the European design aesthetic with Japanese characteristic fabrics, such as beautiful lines and elegant colors. Comme Des Garcons breaks the restrictions of traditional clothing, and the overall line is no longer based on the human body as the framework, showing the architectural or sculptural style, using fabric to create a three-dimensional sense of protruding blocks, clothing is no longer confined to the emphasis on functionality, but more focused on the expression of artistic feelings. KENZO's designs are often taken from nature. He likes small beautiful creatures such as cats, birds, butterflies and fish, especially flowers.
Including natural flowers, Chinese Tang costume and Japanese kimono traditional patterns, he uses thousands of dyeing and combination methods, including ancestral hand-made printing batik, to express flowers, so that his fabrics always present a fresh and happy look.
The first principle of his design is "natural flow, free movement", which refers to the structure, the pursuit of respect for the body, Takada Kenzo was the first fashion designer to adopt traditional and uniform straight cutting techniques, no discount, no hard material, but maintain the straight shape of the clothes.
