Yohji Yamamoto
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Oct 6, 2026
Nicole BonythonGUEST
it was, uh, a real, um, well, it was a real startup, but it was also that time of transition 'cause fashion was very much, I think this would've been '81.
Nicole BonythonGUEST
So it was transitioning from, like, Ungaro and Saint Laurent, those kinds of old-school French designers to Yohji Yamamoto, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Comme des Garçons, a really more avant, what they called avant-garde.
Sarah ReidHOST
Yeah, and quite experimental, I guess.
Nicole BonythonGUEST
Yeah, and that was what I, I was into.
Nick KnightGUEST
But what I was really excited by was the things that I was seeing as a young man happening in front of my camera.
Nick KnightGUEST
So a very young Naomi Campbell, who'd just been given a tape by Prince to play in the studio [chuckles] wearing that incredible scarlet red coat from Yohji Yamamoto and moving across the scene, was witnessed by me, Marc Ascoli, Marc Ascoli's assistant, my assistant Andy Knight, Leslie Chambers the makeup artist, Orlando.
Nick KnightGUEST
And I was thinking, "But this is amazing.
Nick KnightGUEST
People would love to see this.
Nick KnightGUEST
You don't engage with her as a person.
Nick KnightGUEST
You engage with a sort of color field.
Nick KnightGUEST
And the designer that we were working with, Yohji Yamamoto, that was his aesthetic too.
Nick KnightGUEST
Yohji was about a world of dark blue poetry.