Yohji Yamamoto and Japanese Names

fashion rules: Today Japanese names are very different, although they’re still bucking fashion rules, according to The Independent. Rather than staging flashy catwalk shows, the vast majority simply showcase product to buyers and select press. In the Eighties, the unfitted suits, flat-cut in the style of traditional kimonos and proposed by Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, formed the baggy blueprint for a decade of men designs, and the outfit of choice for a generation of creative directors and male fashion editors. They have few stand-alone retail outlets outside Japan, and if celebrities wear their clothing, you probably wouldn’t realise. The latter is a speciality – Japanese selvedge denim has been vaunted for years as the best in the world: Topman has just launched a collection of the stuff, proudly crowing about its geographical origins. That because the clothes are quiet – T-shirts, frequently strangely sloganed, soft suiting, stuff like lumberjack checks and biker jackets, and predominantly denim. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.