Like many millennials who came of age around the time of the global financial crisis, Keisuke Yoshida grew up with an idea of fashion that has all but disappeared.<\/p>\n
Enamored by the glamor of the department store he would walk past on his way to school\u2014the sharp-elbowed mannequins in the window wearing Donna Karan or Ralph Lauren, the scent from the perfume counter drifting through the air\u2014it represented a fantasy, sure, but one that wasn\u2019t as distant as it is today.<\/p>\n
\u201cBack when I was a student, a Dries [van Noten] shirt cost around 30,000 yen\u2014something you could manage to buy if you really tried\u2014but now, that\u2019s impossible,\u201d he said. \u201cI felt a sense that high fashion has slipped out of reach for the average person, and so I wanted to figure out how to pass on the kind of fashion I had enjoyed to the next generation and to share that richness.\u201d<\/p>\n
This collection wasn\u2019t an exercise in nostalgia, he added, but rather an attempt to weave that lost spirit of fashion into the reality of modern dress. To do it, Yoshida looked at the power blazers and souvenir T-shirts that populated catalogues in the 80s and 90s, and mixed them with the businesslike eroticism he has made his signature, cinching the waists of safari jackets and office shirts to exaggerate the broad-shouldered V-shaped silhouettes. \u201cBy tweaking the shape or adding a subtle touch, I wanted to elevate them into something more elegant and sophisticated,\u201d he said. He also removed the throat-clasping scarves that have defined his past few collections, instead unbuttoning the shirts to the navel to allow the looks to breathe, their contrasting collars popped for attitude.<\/p>\n
Fittingly, the presentation took place inside the Seibu Shibuya department store, in what was previously an Herm\u00e8s boutique but is now a disused gallery space. Once a bastion of fashion retail in Tokyo, the iconic department store will close its doors in September after 58 years in business, consigned to the rapidly expanding graveyard of fashion\u2019s golden age. Those days might be gone, but Yoshida is one designer determined to keep the spark alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like many millennials who came of age around the time of the global financial crisis, Keisuke Yoshida grew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,39801,39793,39792,52,39791],"class_list":["post-61279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-japan","tag-keisukeyoshida","tag-runway","tag-runway_review","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-spring-2027"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}