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Yohji Yamamoto

Design Download: Yohji Yamamoto

To launch Design Download - a series demystifying the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download - internationally acclaimed designer Yohji Yamamoto contributed an enigmatic pattern for viewers to print out and make up into an exclusive, mystery garment, free of charge. Nick Knight's photographs of the piece hold the visual key to stitching together your own

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    For more clues as to the precise nature of Yohji Yamamoto's mystery garment, see versions ready-made by SHOWstudio Viewers

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Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design Download series has a simple and direct aim: to help demystifying the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download via the Internet. Think of them as the online equivalent of a 'free gift with purchase'. The first designer to contribute to the series was internationally acclaimed designer Yohji Yamamoto, allowing SHOWstudio viewers download the building-block of a key Yamamoto garment from their computers and make up into an exclusive, mystery garment, free of charge. But there's a twist: rather than the step-by-step how-to usually supplied with domestic dressmaking patterns, Yamamoto left only a cryptic hint for viewers to unpick the complexities of his design. A series of photographic studies of the final garment by Nick Knight's also hold the visual key to stitching together your own rendition.

Credits / Contributors

  • Yohji Yamamoto Yohji Yamamoto
    Fashion Designer
  • Design and pattern: Yohji Yamamoto
  • Photography: Nick Knight
  • Styling: Jonathan Kaye
  • Hair: Sam McKnight at Premier
  • Make-up: Val Garland at Untitled
  • Nails: Marian Newman
  • Scanning and Retouching: Idea-Digital Imaging Ltd
  • Thanks to Jane Audas

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