Gallery Weekend Berlin begins with Yohji Yamamoto Parade

  Berlin has always been a city that loves the binding fashion and art, but the season was extraordinary Gallery Weekend kick-off on Thursday evening with "cutting age", a parade of legendary pieces. Part of a broad career by Yohji Yamamoto

Presented in cement church of St. Agnes, who soon as exhibition space for Berlin owner Johann König gallery, event sponsored by Audi are attracted to an interdisciplinary audience. Alicja Kwade was one of the artists, collectors and Thomas Graesslin accession Christian Boros, whose wife, Karen, was located at the start and runway walk, Stefano Pilati, Cameron Silver, opera singer Nadja Michael, and most importantly of all, Yamamoto. It was the first show of the designer's work in Germany, apart from presentations of Y-3, the 12-year collaboration with Adidas

Thirty-six kept current and past collections took the title, his signature black visions of sharing the stage with a series of colorful stylistic riffs. While melancholy is a word often used to describe Yamamoto and his work, the designers still show up to this qualification. It was a bright Yamamoto who bounced on stage to receive the applause of the audience, pointed his finger in a "You're the man" kind of gesture Rockstar.

The question of whether we should show the "greatest hits Yohji," says the designer probably has a lot to do with the selection. "We have offices in Paris and Tokyo, and it was hard to find parts in good condition in the archives., We could not understand what had made the eighties and the launch in 1992," he said after the show backstage WWD.

While he has not changed his critical attitude towards fast fashion, he said. "I feel a kind of new wind starts to blow ... because the people of fast fashion and accessories are tired of expensive, it has the past two years, the business rises gone from my company and growing. "

And, no, it's not the last of its kind "This is not a generational thing, but how you're hungry," he said. "This powerful new young designers from Eastern Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil may come." He is ready to welcome you and states, "Do I fight rivals."

"Cut Age" was only the first part of a four-day Yohji-thon in Berlin, with "An Evening with Yohji Yamamoto" at Soho House continued on Friday with Yamamoto chat with an architect Asif Khan on fashion, his label, his career and what 2013 holds. On Saturday, the video installation "5 Cuts / A visual dialogue" is in the creative space Designed premiere, while on Sunday, leading retailers conceptual Andreas Murkudis Berlin "Untitled Berlin", an installation by Masao Nihei present designed, designer long Yamamoto choice.