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Yohji yamamoto
Yōji Yamamoto (山本 耀司, Yamamoto Yōji, born 1943[1]) is an influential Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics.
His commercially successful main line, Yohji Yamamoto (women/men) and Y's, are especially popular in Tokyo. These two lines are also available at his flagship stores in New York, Paris, and Antwerp, and at high-end department stores worldwide.
2 Issey Miyake (三宅 一生 Miyake Issei[pronunciation?]?, born April 22, 1938) is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances
In the late 1980s, he began to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibility of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production. In which the garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated. The fabric's 'memory' holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready-to wear. He did the costume for Ballett Frankfurt with pleats in a piece named "the Loss of Small Detail" William Forsythe and also work on ballet "Garden in the setting".
3. Comme des Garcons
Comme des Garçons, French for "Like Boys" is a Japanese fashion label headed by Rei Kawakubo.
Comme des Garçons is based in Tokyo and also in the prestigious Place Vendôme in Paris, the city in which they show their main collections during Paris Fashion Week and Paris Men's Fashion Week.
The label was started in Tokyo by Rei Kawakubo in 1969 and established as a company Comme des Garçons Co. Ltd in 1973.[3] It became successful in Japan in the 1970s; a menswear line was added in 1978. The year 1981 saw Comme des Garçons's debut show in Paris. It created a splash for its predominant use of black and distressed fabrics.[4] Throughout the 1980s, Comme des Garçons's clothes often had the destroyed look.
4. Rick owens
Richard Saturnino Owens (born November 18, 1962), known as Rick Owens, is an American fashion designer from Porterville, California.
5. Visvim
All of these have smilier elements with yohji.
Visvim is a Japanese men’s apparel brand founded by Hiroki Nakamura in 2001. The brand is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has flagship stores in Japan and Hong Kong. Visvim is also sold internationally in department stores and boutiques, such as Bergdorf Goodman in New York and Dover Street Market in London.