Kansai Yamamoto collection

Kansai Yamamoto collection, the fashion world of young people

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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 were huge events, attracting up to 5,000 people.

During the eighteenth century, the technique was appropriated for gun metal mesh purses, but it was only with the patenting of an automatic mesh making machine, invented in 1909 by A C Pratt, that mesh purses achieved their highly visible ubiquity Prior to this invention, mesh assembly was laborious as each completed mesh bag could contain up to 100,000 links, individually wound, split and then joined by hand.

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 impact on fashion bags 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.

Cartoon graphics and cotton netting casual bag and backpack were one of the wilder combinations offered by Kansai Yamamoto. Others included lush satin robes and pyjamas appliqued with huge Japanese figures.