How the great brand handbag designer YAMAMOTO

How the great brand handbag designer

YAMAMOTO

KOMELY HANDBAG FACTORY

www.komely.com.hk

Cartoon graphics and cotton netting fashion carry bag and backpack

were one of the wilder combinations offered by Kansai Yamamoto.

The collection also included lush satin robes and pyjamas appliqued with included lush satin robes and pyjamas appliqued with huge Japanese figures.

Yamamoto married traditional Japanese culture and Western influences, set them to a music beat and put them in the realm of the performing arts. In the 1970s his fashion performance shows wer juge events, attracting up to 5,000 people.

 After training as a civil engineer, Yamamoto left school in 1962 to study English, before moving on to fashion. He designed David Bowie’s outrageous costumes for “Ziggy Stardust” and “Aladdin Sane” and, in 1975, he began showing in Paris, part of the first wave of Japanese designers who would have an impoact on fashion through the following decades, Yamamoto’s trademarks are a use of abstract color sculpted into unique forms, which successfully blend ancient oriental influences with modern sporty themes.