Kansai yamamoto

The Japanese fashion designer was famed for bringing ‘basara’ to Bowie, and went on to be a huge influence on a generation of younger talents from Jean Paul Gaultier to Hedi Slimane

Kansai Yamamoto, the designer that helped outfit David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust era, is an unlikely inspiration for contemporary designers.

France, Paris,13 October 1979. Fashion show of Kansai Yamamotor spring / summer 1980 women's ready-to-wear collection.

Kansai Yamamoto, Designer With Ziggy Stardust as a Client, Dies at 76

Kansai Yamamoto 3D wrap-around design black cat knit sweater, 1980s.

Acclaimed Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, known for his avant-garde collections and collaboration with David Bowie, has died aged 76.

In 1971, the designer’s creations were featured in the British magazine Harpers & Queen.

These high-heeled clogs are modeled after traditional Japanese okobo, worn during the summer by apprentice geisha; black lacquered platfor...

David bowie / 1973

France, Paris, October 18, 1980. Fashion show of Kansai Yamamoto women's ready-to-wear collection spring-summer 1981.

Kansai Yamamoto fits David Bowie in one of his designs Every once in a while, pop culture gives us a duo whose legacies feel almost magnetically intertwined. David Bowie and the Japanese designer Kasai Yamamoto created some of the most iconic, gender-bending stage outfits the world had ever seen.

KANSAI YAMAMOTO 1980

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Kansai Yamamoto, 1971

France, Paris, March 26,1982. Fashion show of Kansai Yamamoto autumn-winter 1982-1983 women's ready-to-wear collection. Location: Palais ( Cour ) du Louvre.

LONG before the Swinging Sixties or those foppish days when Regency ­dandies powdered their wigs and faces, our ancestors were strutting their stuff on the catwalks of history.