Talking to Myself: Bk.1, Bk.2 - Softcover

Yamamoto, Yohji; Sozzani, Carla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3882438258 ISBN 13: 9783882438253

Publisher: Steidl Verlag, 2002

Synopsis

For the first time, the Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto decided to become personally involved in every stage of a book, meant to be a veritable extension of his own private world. Talking to Myself is a creative and illustrated notebook recounting the phases in the life of a man, his approach and that of his team, a "work in progress" punctuated with images by Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Craig McDean, Sheila Metzner, Sarah Moon, Paolo Roversi, David Sims, Max Vadukul, Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin and others. By "talking to himself", and with philosopher Kiyokazu Washida about himself and the objects he creates, Yamamoto - the sincere, demanding author and sometimes poet - strives to emphasize a certain conception of clothing at the dawn of the third millennium. Talking to Myself deciphers this desire to achieve anti-fashion through fashion itself in pages marked with Japanese ideograms, striking sketches and abstract compositions derived from an age-old tradition, as Yohji Yamamoto's pen or brush trace their lines on white paper. In this world of black and white symbols, color makes only a fleeting appearance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Steidl Verlag
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3882438258
• ISBN 13: 9783882438253
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316