In the history of art, Yohji Yamamoto is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Yohji Yamamoto as Japanese fashion designer (born 1943).
Yohji Yamamoto was born at Tokyo in 1943. His recorded nationality is Japan. He trained at Keio University and Bunka Fashion College.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
He worked as dressmaker, costume designer and designer.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Japan shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
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