Milan Fashion Week Audience Blown Away By YOSHIKI’s High Fashion Brand: MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS
4 min readYOSHIKI‘s high-fashion model MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS debuted on February 20 as a part of the official calendar for Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2024/25 within the main Fashion Events part.
The runway present blew away the viewers of trend media and business who gathered for the worldwide debut of MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS–YOSHIKI’s new excessive trend brand--at Bocconi.
YOSHIKI created a high group from world wide to current his first present in Milan, together with famend trend stylist Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele – the previous Vogue US trend director who influenced the careers of business giants Versace, Lagerfeld, and others. The group additionally consists of Maida Gregori Boina (casting), Odile Gilbert (hair), and Kabuki (make-up). YOSHIKI additionally assigned Kuki de Salvertes, who has labored with many designers together with Vivienne Westwood and Raf Simons, because the model’s improvement director.
YOSHIKI additionally introduced collectively a tremendous group of business collaborators. YOSHIKI’s cutting-edge line debuted with 37 appears – together with attire, equipment, and sneakers.
MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS is the newest transfer on the planet of excessive trend by the long-lasting musician, designer, and filmmaker, fusing YOSHIKI’s visions of trend and life-style with RTW glamorous and genderless designs.
Statement from YOSHIKI:
MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS is a construction that may convey collectively all my artistic actions in trend, design, and life-style.
It’s the logical extension of Yoshikimono, which I created in 2011 and which till now centered on the artwork of the kimono, which was revisited in an edgy and up to date means at varied Tokyo Fashion Weeks.
MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS, which has a extra worldwide imaginative and prescient, shares the values and aesthetic which can be treasured to me personally: sustainability, upcycling, quick manufacturing circuits and, in fact, genderless.
My private relationship with trend began once I was a baby. My father ran a luxurious kimono enterprise and I’ve at all times been surrounded by textiles, craftsmanship and an actual sense of class. Of course, as an artist, I’ve at all times taken care to take care of my look and my appears, so I’ve at all times been within the worldwide avant-garde trend. From the outset, I’ve adopted the collections of Alexander McQueen, Dior, Saint Laurent, and Versace, whom I’ve at all times admired, in addition to different designers I like and put on.
Milan has at all times been an incredible supply of inspiration for me; its structure, tradition, museums and naturally live performance halls. In the context of MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS, Milan is undoubtedly the world’s trend enterprise capital with the best worldwide inventive influences.
Obviously, the primary sector of exercise for MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS will probably be trend. A spread of girls’s ready-to-wear, but in addition genderless. Complete with the event of important equipment equivalent to sneakers, luggage and jewellery from the very first assortment. Season after season, the vary of merchandise will develop in an effort to reply as a lot as potential to the completely different wishes of my purchasers and clients (sun shades, underwear, and so on.).
The subsequent step for MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS is decisive: on February 20 at 8PM, the first-ever present for my model occurred throughout Milan Fashion Week. My purpose was to make it edgy, and placing, with a really spectacular impression on the general public, and the place to begin for your entire improvement of my trend model MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS.
The assortment is female, but in addition genderless with a really up to date, edgy type and a contact of rock ‘n’ roll which has at all times been necessary to me. Creative, with a really showy end, all supplies are high-end, pure, and Italian or French. The assortment presently consists of 37 appears, comprising a complete vary, all in black with delicate pink accents.
The silhouettes are elongated, structured, and highly effective. The vary of supplies features a patchwork of clean or tailor-made silk, silk velvet, fake fur, dry and stretch wools, and outsized sequins, making a rhythmic stride for individuals who put on them. Naturally, denim options prominently in my assortment, which I’ve chosen to reinterpret in varied levels. I’ve created 8 spectacular silhouettes in collaboration with top-of-the-line couture homes.
As for equipment, boots, glasses, and gloves have been meticulously handmade, together with the jewellery. Additionally, sneakers have been developed in partnership with the Japanese model Grounds, a model I love.
I’ll select MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS muses and ambassadors from the artists and singers of the brand new era, whose type and character will probably be most in tune with my ambition and imaginative and prescient.
In addition to its improvement in trend, MAISON YOSHIKI PARIS will even be tackling life-style in collaboration with specialist French homes. For instance, a group of water glasses, wine glasses and champagne glasses will quickly be launched in collaboration with BACCARAT. This is a collaborative venture with BACCARAT, and instantly linked to my work with Rob Mondavi, Jr. in Napa for my wines and my partnership with Pommery for champagne. I’ve at all times dreamed of providing my visitors a prestigious glass service, consultant of my imaginative and prescient and made by the best French crystal maker.
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