DÉCONSTRUCTION : MODE & CORPS JAPONAIS
2025
2025
Produced as part of a Master’s thesis (Master II), this 231-page research and editorial project explores the influence of Japanese designers on contemporary fashion, and how they have reshaped our relationship to the body, the silhouette, and clothing.
Floating volumes, bold layering, deconstructed structures: a fashion that rethinks the body without constraining it. From Yohji Yamamoto to Issey Miyake, a quiet revolution has disrupted Western norms. Rei Kawakubo erases the silhouette, Watanabe reconstructs it, Abe merges genres. More than an aesthetic gesture, these approaches redefine our relationship to the body, to identity, and to the garment.
Floating volumes, bold layering, deconstructed structures: a fashion that rethinks the body without constraining it. From Yohji Yamamoto to Issey Miyake, a quiet revolution has disrupted Western norms. Rei Kawakubo erases the silhouette, Watanabe reconstructs it, Abe merges genres. More than an aesthetic gesture, these approaches redefine our relationship to the body, to identity, and to the garment.
Their influence endures and continues to shape contemporary creation. Margiela pushes deconstruction to the point of abstraction; Rick Owens adopts floating volumes and plays with asymmetry. Virgil Abloh, at Louis Vuitton, reinterprets the kimono within an urban wardrobe.
Margiela’s Tabi, Issey Miyake’s pleats, oversized cuts and hybrid materials have become essential design codes. Between tradition and avant-garde, their legacy remains one of the most striking forces in contemporary aesthetics.
Margiela’s Tabi, Issey Miyake’s pleats, oversized cuts and hybrid materials have become essential design codes. Between tradition and avant-garde, their legacy remains one of the most striking forces in contemporary aesthetics.