Yohji Yamamoto, the great brand handbag designer

Yohji Yamamoto, the great brand handbag designer

KOMELY ENTERPRISES LTD COMELY HANDBAG

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This lean coat represents the traditions of both antique Western Leather Goods and those of contemporary Japan. IN 1981 Yohji Yamamoto presented his bags to a Weste Audience for the first time and effectively turned the motion of fashion as structured, sexy and glamorous on behead. Ewere shocked, labelling the collection Hiroshima chic, it was composed of androgynous shrouds in several shades of black, worn with Flat flap, little make-up and a stern expression. But the shock turned to admiration. Yamamoto dropped out of a law degree to work for his widowed mother in her dressmaking shop. He followed this with a fashion degree at Tokyo’s Bunka Fashion Collage, and set up his own label in 1977. He says, “My leather bags are about human beings: they are alive. I am alive” His vision of women, and later men, as independent, intelligent, liberated artisans has elevated his status to that of a fashion legend.