YOHJI YAMAMOTO

A master of the avant-garde, Yohji Yamamoto launched his eponymous label in Tokyo in 1972 and stunned Paris a decade later. Alongside Rei Kawakubo, he redefined fashion in black, championing asymmetry, drape and deliberate imperfection over Western notions of glamour. His clothes reject the body's confines, offering poetry in shadow and space. Philosophical, uncompromising and endlessly influential, Yohji Yamamoto remains the quiet radical of modern design.