Wedding dress

Designer Yohji Yamamoto Japanese

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Executed in a cotton muslin, this wedding dress is emblematic of Yamamoto's deconstructive eye; the typical patterning fabric evokes the silhouette of a work-in-progress, and the designer's large basting seam stitches complete this transitional, unfinished aesthetic. Yamamoto poetically fuses brash, hasty underpinnings with couture detail to produce a garment that is at once modern and traditionally elegant. Both dramatic and absurd, the dress connotes the formality of the runway but the comfort of the boudoir.

Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese

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Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese
Wedding dress, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943), a) cotton, nylon, silk; b) cotton, nylon, Japanese

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