Under Yohji Yamamoto's Wings, Yasuto Sasada soars from Chengdu to Paris into 2014

NEW YORK - Jan. 27, 2014 - PRLog -- The collaboration between the iconic designerYohji Yamamoto and future iconic artist,Yasuto Sasada, was inevitable as both share enormous pride in their common heritage. In Paris, during Yohji Yamamoto’s Fall 2014 Menswear show, there was a fanfare of applause. The runway was an experience of time and immortality.

'Quickly diverted by skulls, serpents, and blood-red camouflage with the collision of wild dandy florals, tamer sketched patterns, and psychedelic illustrations that bordered on occult proved divisive depending on whether you more closely identify with a Korean pop star (G-Dragon was sitting front-row) or an editor who remembers back when Yamamoto's ample shapes were radical enough. A wealth of symbols overcompensated for the designer's recent spell of restraint.'- Style.com

Attendees witnessed Yohji transcend from ingenue to sage through the context of Sasada's imaginative junction from mythical to industrial to ethereal. His portrait of Yohji is of deity status as it pays homage to Japan's oligarch. Yohji dutifully passes the torch to Sasada as if to continue the centuries old journey of Japan's cultural prowess.

This spurt of collaboration between the two continues with Sasada's inclusion in the I Am Here Chinese campaign to preserve the Panda. For the past 3 years, Sasada’s concern with conservancy and ecology has been the undercarriage of his contemporary address of historic preservation and propagation.

"Sasada's potential is super!"- Yohji Yamamoto

I Am Here provides a “social meaning for thought...our presence and reflecting on thought-provoking social significance.” - Lawrence Argent

"Hand-painted designs in Day-Glo shades brought to mind the outsider art that is having a moment in Paris, thanks to an exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre marking the 25th anniversary of Raw Vision magazine. Like those artists, Yamamoto allowed his ideas to flow unfettered this season, at the risk of triggering a sensory overload." -WWD

'Paris was charmed by the bohemian spirit of Yohji Yamamoto. This season melted color tones with subtle print, mixed in a bohemian and poetic spirit. Yohji Yamamoto was poetic and melancholic.' -FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP