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Fashion Network
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Y-3 says it in amber for autumn 2025
Y-3, the game-setting amalgam of high fashion and active sport, has unveiled its latest collection, and for Autumn 2025, it's all about saying it in amber. To be precise, Amber Ink is the key to most looks: a unique graphic treatment inspired by Japanese ink painting, used in amber colours—radiating warmth, creativity and transformation. The hue of amber, a fossilised tree resin noted for its natural beauty since Neolithic times, appears all over bold fashion ideas from Y-3, a joint venture between Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto and German sportswear giant Adidas. A kicky collection, captured by longtime photography collaborator Thue Nørgaard, in the campaign that plays with light and colour in a surreal cinematic style. 'Statement silhouettes—coach jackets, cargo trousers, puffers, knits—merge with dynamic Three Stripes and layered logos, while footwear like the Y-3 Regu and Y-3 Tokyo reimagine classic Adidas forms,' noted a joint release. Founded in 2001, the Germano-Japanese partnership has long explored the threshold between polarities—fashion and sport, creativity and expression, light and dark. In the meeting of active sport and arty fashion, Y-3 remains the true benchmark. 'And now, their renegade label, Y-3, returns to introduce its Autumn /Winter 2025 collection: a collision of sport, precision technique, and evocative graphic treatments,' trumpeted the Y-3 release, with some justification. The full collection will get its first live display on Saturday, 28 June, the final day of the French menswear catwalk season, with a performance inside Palais Brongniart, the former stock exchange of Paris. Amber and ambergris hues—in orange, yellow, and ochre—are sprayed, splotched, and smeared over a wide range of garments in the Amber Ink graphic treatment, granting great individual panache to many looks. Striking silhouettes, dramatic cinching, expressive padding, and contorted Three Stripes provide the canvas upon which the Amber Ink artworks undulate. Sports coach jackets, cargo pants, tracksuits, knit dresses, puffers, and knit jumpers are all carefully finished off with precisely placed logo elements, each adopting a similar graphic approach. A curated selection of reimagined Adidas footwear accompanies the Amber Ink pieces, including the Y-3 Regu and the Y-3 Regu Boot, both featuring custom patterned details and the Y-3 Tokyo. Ergonomic blends of bowling shoes, boxer boots, and triple-stripe trainers—they all look great. Elements of the collection are now available from like wide-cut T-shirts smeared in blotchy amber prints and priced at €150. After 1 July, they will retail in Y-3 stores and via select retail partners.
Fashion Network
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Y-3 says it in amber for fall 2025
Y-3, the game-setting amalgam of high fashion and active sport, has unveiled its latest collection, and for Fall 2025, it's all about saying it in amber. To be precise, Amber Ink is the key to most looks: a unique graphic treatment inspired by Japanese ink painting, used in amber colors—radiating warmth, creativity and transformation. The hue of amber, a fossilized tree resin noted for its natural beauty since Neolithic times, appears all over bold fashion ideas from Y-3, a joint venture between Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto and German sportswear giant Adidas. A kicky collection, captured by longtime photography collaborator Thue Nørgaard, in the campaign that plays with light and color in a surreal cinematic style. 'Statement silhouettes—coach jackets, cargo pants, puffers, knits—merge with dynamic Three Stripes and layered logos, while footwear like the Y-3 Regu and Y-3 Tokyo reimagine classic Adidas forms,' noted a joint release. Founded in 2001, the Germano-Japanese partnership has long explored the threshold between polarities—fashion and sport, creativity and expression, light and dark. In the meeting of active sport and arty fashion, Y-3 remains the true benchmark. 'And now, their renegade label, Y-3, returns to introduce its Fall/Winter 2025 collection: a collision of sport, precision technique, and evocative graphic treatments,' trumpeted the Y-3 release, with some justification. The full collection will get its first live display on Saturday, June 28, the final day of the French menswear catwalk season, with a performance inside Palais Brongniart, the former stock exchange of Paris. Amber and ambergris hues—in orange, yellow, and ochre—are sprayed, splotched, and smeared over a wide range of garments in the Amber Ink graphic treatment, granting great individual panache to many looks. Striking silhouettes, dramatic cinching, expressive padding, and contorted Three Stripes provide the canvas upon which the Amber Ink artworks undulate. Sports coach jackets, cargo pants, tracksuits, knit dresses, puffers, and knit sweaters are all carefully finished off with precisely placed logo elements, each adopting a similar graphic approach. A curated selection of reimagined Adidas footwear accompanies the Amber Ink pieces, including the Y-3 Regu and the Y-3 Regu Boot, both featuring custom patterned details and the Y-3 Tokyo. Ergonomic blends of bowling shoes, boxer boots, and triple-stripe sneakers—they all look great. Elements of the collection are now available from like wide-cut T-shirts smeared in blotchy amber prints and priced at €150. After July 1, they will retail in Y-3 stores and via select retail partners.
Fashion Network
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Y-3 says it in amber for fall 2025
Y-3, the game-setting amalgam of high fashion and active sport, has unveiled its latest collection, and for Fall 2025, it's all about saying it in amber. To be precise, Amber Ink is the key to most looks: a unique graphic treatment inspired by Japanese ink painting, used in amber colors—radiating warmth, creativity and transformation. The hue of amber, a fossilized tree resin noted for its natural beauty since Neolithic times, appears all over bold fashion ideas from Y-3, a joint venture between Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto and German sportswear giant Adidas. A kicky collection, captured by longtime photography collaborator Thue Nørgaard, in the campaign that plays with light and color in a surreal cinematic style. 'Statement silhouettes—coach jackets, cargo pants, puffers, knits—merge with dynamic Three Stripes and layered logos, while footwear like the Y-3 Regu and Y-3 Tokyo reimagine classic Adidas forms,' noted a joint release. Founded in 2001, the Germano-Japanese partnership has long explored the threshold between polarities—fashion and sport, creativity and expression, light and dark. In the meeting of active sport and arty fashion, Y-3 remains the true benchmark. 'And now, their renegade label, Y-3, returns to introduce its Fall/Winter 2025 collection: a collision of sport, precision technique, and evocative graphic treatments,' trumpeted the Y-3 release, with some justification. The full collection will get its first live display on Saturday, June 28, the final day of the French menswear catwalk season, with a performance inside Palais Brongniart, the former stock exchange of Paris. Amber and ambergris hues—in orange, yellow, and ochre—are sprayed, splotched, and smeared over a wide range of garments in the Amber Ink graphic treatment, granting great individual panache to many looks. Striking silhouettes, dramatic cinching, expressive padding, and contorted Three Stripes provide the canvas upon which the Amber Ink artworks undulate. Sports coach jackets, cargo pants, tracksuits, knit dresses, puffers, and knit sweaters are all carefully finished off with precisely placed logo elements, each adopting a similar graphic approach. A curated selection of reimagined Adidas footwear accompanies the Amber Ink pieces, including the Y-3 Regu and the Y-3 Regu Boot, both featuring custom patterned details and the Y-3 Tokyo. Ergonomic blends of bowling shoes, boxer boots, and triple-stripe sneakers—they all look great. Elements of the collection are now available from like wide-cut T-shirts smeared in blotchy amber prints and priced at €150. After July 1, they will retail in Y-3 stores and via select retail partners.
Hypebeast
03-06-2025
- Business
- Hypebeast
WILDSIDE Yohji Yamamoto Repurposes Archival Fabric in Limited-Edition Patchwork Cushions
Yohji Yamamoto'sWILDSIDElabel pushes the Japanese designer's signature deconstructed, vintage design aesthetic into new territory with its latest limited-edition release, which uses its archival fabrics. However, instead of offering an apparel capsule, WILDSIDE is applying the repurposed materials to a range of one-of-one patchwork throw pillows. Each cushion features eight fabrics in a textured quilt of rectangular patches. Elegant textiles, including a woolen green and blue tartan and an ornate floral jacquard, are contrasted with military-inspired materials like camouflage sherpa and solid green fabrics with stenciled typography. WILDSIDE Yohji Yamamoto wordmarks are scattered throughout the design, following the stencil motif on the front and back sides. While Yohji Yamamoto has released various throw blankets before, often through his Y's for Living line, the newest release expands on recent craft-oriented forays into homeware from his label. In 2022, WILDSIDE unveiled another limited-edition design project with EYEFUNNY, releasing a charcoal-toned stool adorned with floral designs. Later, in 2023, the label collaborated with Miyoshi Rug to transform its red flower motif into a tufted area rug. Like previous design projects, the cushions are made in an extremely limited run, stenciled by hand from 01 to 20, and come with a unique serial number. The WILDSIDE Yohji Yamamoto Limited Edition Patchwork Cushion will be offered at 24,200 yen ($170 USD) exclusively at WILDSIDE's Harajuku boutique.
New York Times
03-03-2025
- Business
- New York Times
A Store That Gets How People Dress Now
It was men's fashion week in Paris, and the Archivist Store was as busy as Gare du Nord. That is, if the train depot were frequented solely by people who could tell a mere North Face jacket from a North Face Purple Label one. Inside, a boutique owner from New York stood at the counter buying a stack of dog-eared issues of i-D magazine from the 1990s. A stylist, also from New York, popped out of the dressing room to tell his friend that he just had to have this pair of faded black trousers. A couple of visitors from Japan stopped by, one of whom had a pop-up at the Archivist for her own vintage shop last year. It was a success. She warmly greeted the store's owner, Sami Taider. 'Fashion week is the busiest time of the year,' Mr. Taider said, taking a break for an interview at a corner bistro. 'But when you have a business like this, it's important to have people coming every day.' Since opening its doors in December 2022, the Archivist Store, with its uncluttered, white-walled interior, has become the Paris men's resale mecca. If you ask a certain breed of shopper — someone who collects '90s Issey Miyake sweaters or who can tell the age of a Stussy tee by its label — it's the best vintage store in the city, if not the world. (It is probably the only vintage store reselling Stussy that the label's reclusive founder, Shawn Stussy, has actually visited and posted about on Instagram.) But why? It's all in the mix. Vintage stores tend to have a parochial focus on one period or class of clothing — your Americana Levis specialists, your hole-ridden metal tee slingers or those aesthetes who sell only Christian Lacroix frocks from the late 1980s. The Archivist Store is more catholic in its taste. The only litmus test for an item's inclusion on the sales floor is that Mr. Taider has to appreciate the garment. 'Sometimes, people are too narrow-minded,' he said. 'It's important for us to be able to have items for everyone — every budget, but also every type of people, every gender.' The north side of the shop holds a cache of aged designer goods from French, Italian and Japanese labels. On my last visit, I thumbed past a ribbed Hermès full-zip cardigan, several austere Yohji Yamamoto pleated trousers and a Dolce & Gabbana bomber with an absurd surplus of pockets. Opposite this rack, the stock gets rangier: clusters of vintage Supreme T-shirts beside vintage Levi's and Carhartt work pants, mountaineering-ready Montbell puffers with brick-thick American-made Camber hoodies and faded Stone Island jackets with four-figure price tags. (Prices are higher than Goodwill's but far less than new at Bergdorf Goodman: $300 or so for those Yohji Yamamoto pants, around $650 for a Comme des Garçons overcoat from the '90s, $200 for a hoodie and about half of that for a tee.) 'I don't really focus that much on the brand,' said Mr. Taider, 36, a native of Toulouse who moved to Paris as a child. 'It's more about having good products in each category.' Shopping at the Archivist makes clear that traditional boutiques do not capture how people, even people in fashion, actually dress. They may have the designer prizes but lack those trusty North Face windbreakers or Salomon beanies. At the same time, outdoorsy outfitters are not interested in selling a riotous, Rainbow Brite Issey Miyake sweater or even vintage military fatigues. The Archivist Store touches it all, and in doing so, mirrors the high-low, haute-paired-with-not way we dress today. 'We don't want to talk to only hard-core designer people,' said Mr. Taider, himself dressed in a deep navy agnès b. sweater. He wants the Margiela collector but also the neighborhood locals who buy a Scottish-made beanie because they saw it in the window while walking their dog. If the Archivist Store brings something novel to Paris, Mr. Taider will tell you that it's an idea imported, at least partly, from Japan. On a visit to Tokyo, he fell for that country's labyrinth of resale shops that abide by the notion that a designer item does not become passé just because it's a few seasons old. It may even become more desirable. 'It's really great to have all those items that are selected, all in good condition and all well-organized,' Mr. Taider said. In 2018, he moved to Japan to immerse himself in those markets, studying tags, scrutinizing brand names and buying gear for what would become the Archivist Store. A web shop came first, then a pop-up in the Paul Bert flea market and then, three years ago, a physical store in what was once in an art gallery, on quaint Rue Taylor in the tenth arrondissement. Today, Mr. Taider has a staff of three: André, the store manager; Damien, an intern; and Mehdi Chabane, who helped him start the store and handles visuals and marketing. Nearly all items are available only in the store, some selling before Mr. Chabane can even photograph them. The task of stocking the store is Mr. Taider's alone. He does not use a network of sourcing contacts as some vintage sellers do. Instead, he trolls eBay, Mercari, Yahoo auctions and Japanese resale sites to find deals. He sharpened these digital digging skills as a streetwear-loving teenager, haggling for Supreme T-shirts and Alife gear on clothing forums before they were distributed in France. Still, sifting through that many pages of pants and shoes is time-consuming, vision-blurring work. 'I'm not sleeping much,' he said, adding that he was considering hiring someone to help him with sourcing. Still, the goal of connecting someone with a piece they did not even know they needed kept him hunting. Not to mention, he often falls in love with his finds. Case in point: On my last visit, I bought a Comme des Garçons barn-style jacket from 1990 — it was only the second model in this style that Mr. Taider had ever come across. Selling it was like freeing a cherished pet. 'I'm never going to see it again,' he said. 'When it's gone, it's gone.'
