by BobbyZamora » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:01 pm
some designers seem to just pick moderately "experimental" sounding music (regardless of whether or not it fits their collection) to appeal to critics attending the show, I find. Or something to that effect. A lot of music choices in fashion shows are bizarre to me. Some designers are better than others when it comes to this, though.
Yohji Yamamoto tends to be pretty good- his womenswear shows in particular. In his documentary "This is my dream" he talks about blues musicians and how they've influenced him. He even keeps a guitar knocking around in his workplace- which one of his employees can be seen playing several times throughout the show. He also plays it a little bit.
Even still though, I'm sometimes bothered by his music choices. In his latest menswear show he picked some sort of industrial beat with no melody. Which doesn't seem to fit Yohji Yamamoto, or the show, to be honest.
So much for "to be modern is to tear the soul out of everything"?
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