Victoria and Albert museum

Today I visited the Victoria and Albert museum. I saw the Yohji Yamamoto exhibition. He was born in 1943 in Tokyo and won two awards after studying in Japan which enabled him to travel to Europe. His mother was a seamstress and Yamamoto worked with her for a few years. He then went on to set up his first women's ready to wear label Y's. Yohi Yamamoto's work is unusual, unique and exquisite. From what I saw, his dresses were extremely complicated with ruffles and intricate designs.  Lots of Yamato's clothing is oversized and it looks slightly unfinished. His clothing is mostly black and he deals with ideas of gender.

Although, I found looking at Yamamoto’s clothing and videos of his catwalks interesting, I am not sure if it will inspire my own clothing range. He uses fabrics that are not normally used for making clothing. For example he uses felt. I am not experienced enough to use the same fabrics that Yamamoto uses as I am not sure it had the mass market appeal.  It has opened my eyes to all the endless possibilities I have for my clothing range. In the exhibition some of his origional sketches were shown so this may help me later on to start off my own ideas. This was the way Yamato went about planing and collateing his thoughts and ideas. I will now need to decide how many items i will make and what they will be.