Designing for Yohji Yamamoto

The first part of design development was a group project (hmmph) involving research into a

specific fashion designer; in our case Yohji Yamamoto, a japanese designer who

creates very cool, simplistic designs with asymmetric cuts and almost everything in black (which

made the designing easier!). We researched the brand, the customers and forthcoming trends

for A/W 11/12 and then produced a customer profile board, a mood board and fabric boards

which were the starting points for our individual design collections.

Abit of Facebook research/stalking of Yohji Yamamoto fans/customers.

 Analysing Yohji's current collections - on ASOS !

The future...

Who are they???

 Mood board showing colour palette and main themes - asymmetry, japanese tradition, structure, origami effects (pleats&folds) oversized silhouettes and accent colours.

Yarn board (as I was designing a knitwear collection).

After the group work was handed in (PHEEWW), i started my own design journal  (basically pages and

pages of  drawing developed designs / "jumpers" haha :) to work towards a final collection. Once my journal was finished (PHEEWW), i chose my best designs, created technical drawings of them and illustrated them through styled outfits reflecting the Yohji Yamamoto ethos... The images below should

explain it better !

 Illustrations...

Technical drawings (done on Illustrator aka bain of my life haha)

I'm quite proud :)

All work © Julia Handley