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9 unusual facts about Yohji Yamamoto


Blankey Jet City

Fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, used the album to promote his 1991 Paris collection.

Bo Ningen

They have since played shows and festivals throughout the UK, Europe and Japan, notably The 2011 Venice Biennale (in collaboration with artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster), which was re-created for Yoko Ono's Meltown Festival at Royal Festival Hall, they were also invited to perform at The Victoria And Albert Museum's Yohji Yamamoto Friday Late event.

Brett Wickens

Brett worked with British designer Peter Saville as a partner in his London studio during the 1980s and 90s, where they developed renowned campaigns for clients as diverse as Yohji Yamamoto, Factory Records, Peter Gabriel and the French Ministry of Culture.

Eva Gronbach

At the „Institut Français de la Mode“ in Paris she received the Master of Arts and worked for various designers like Stephen Jones, Yohji Yamamoto, John Galliano and Hermès.

Gabrielle Geppert

In 2000, she settled permanently in Paris and works for the Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto.

Joe Saba

In the 1980s he sold the designs of Japanese designers such as Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto in Australia.

Richard Heslop

Two years later he directed his first music video The Queen is Dead by The Smiths and modelled in a Paris fashion show for Yohji Yamamoto and travelled to India to make documentary about the "Kumba Mela."

Shirin Guild

The style is portrayed in the same context as that of, e.g., Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto.

Taraf de Haïdouks

The group has toured worldwide, released acclaimed albums and a DVD (see below), and counts among its fans the late Yehudi Menuhin, the Kronos Quartet (with whom it has recorded and performed), actor Johnny Depp (alongside whom the group appeared in the film The Man Who Cried), fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto (who invited the band to be models-cum-musicians for his Paris and Tokyo shows), and many more.


Grey Organisation

GO’s recognition begun to grow outside of the art world when Lynne Franks launched the Grey Organisation into the 1980s' world of PR; modelling for Katherine Hamnett at The Albert Hall and Yohji Yamamoto in Paris; supporting Red Wedge; meeting Neil Kinnock at the Houses of Parliament; and promoting Swatch watches.


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