Yohji Yamamoto Top The house's tailoring vocabulary of

The house's tailoring vocabulary of the era draws on the bouclé tweed cardigan-jacket

A skirt from Jil Sander's Fall/Winter 2000 collection

Bauhaus-grounded approach to precision tailoring

The house was founded in Tokyo by Rei Kawakubo in 1969 and incorporated in 1973

Yohji Yamamoto Top The house's tailoring vocabulary ofA top from Yohji Yamamoto. Yamamoto founded the house in Tokyo in 1972 (some sources cite 1973), debuting the signature line on the Paris runway in 1981, and has remained its sole creative director throughout. The house is defined by deconstruction, all black and deep monochrome cloth, and deliberately unfinished finishing.