irere: Yohji Yamamoto Spring-Summer 1999 Some designers, however, eschewed such a strictly technologically determinist aesthetic and instead played on the contradictions between an old and new-fashioned look. Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring-Summer 1999 collection was inspired by the crinoline, but the hooped skirts came with pockets that carried different accessories for different occasions. For all that they seemed to evoke the ghosts of modernity, Yamamoto inventively used the construction of the crinoline, rather than playing with it as surface decoration, to imagine new uses for historical costume.  From Fashion at the Edge by Caroline Evans

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Yohji Yamamoto Spring-Summer 1999

Some designers, however, eschewed such a strictly technologically determinist aesthetic and instead played on the contradictions between an old and new-fashioned look. Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring-Summer 1999 collection was inspired by the crinoline, but the hooped skirts came with pockets that carried different accessories for different occasions. For all that they seemed to evoke the ghosts of modernity, Yamamoto inventively used the construction of the crinoline, rather than playing with it as surface decoration, to imagine new uses for historical costume. 

From Fashion at the Edge by Caroline Evans

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