“It’s about motion and action,” said Yohji Yamamoto about his spring effort for Y-3, the collaboration he started with Adidas 13 years ago in a quest to merge sportswear with everyday garments. “It’s neither casual, nor formal; it becomes something else, which modern people need for everyday life,” he added, before sending out a run of extra-fluid silhouettes for him and her, the strongest looks of which came in black and white.
There were sarouel track pants teamed with breezy shirts or elongated tank tops; almost weightless oversize dress shirts worn as tunics; and rainproof nylon ponchos boasting edgy, modernist cuts. Yamamoto also put the focus on natural fibers, using mainly cotton and rayon, instead of synthetics. Upping the apparel was a new footwear style — the so-called Kyujo sneaker in technical knit with panels of leather wrapped around the foot.
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The notion of movement was underlined by a trancelike live act by the TAO Dance Theater, performing “Tao Ye,” a piece The Guardian aptly dubbed as “monochrome minimalism” and which was somewhat reminiscent of the Y-3 collection.