Kansai Yamamoto
Kansai Yamamoto was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on February 8th, 1944 and is the Fashion Designer. At the age of 76, Kansai Yamamoto biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Kansai Yamamoto (born February 8, 1944) is a Japanese fashion designer, most influential during the 1970s and 1980s.
Early life and career
Kansai was born in 1944 in Yokohama, Japan. He concentrated on civil engineering in high school and majored in English at Nippon University before deciding on fashion in 1965. He apprenticed at designer Junko Koshino and Hisashi Hosono'sateliers while studying fashion on his own. In 1967, Bunka Fashion College awarded the Soen prize.
Yamamoto's work had an aesthetic of "wild maximalism." It has been described as "transgressive excess" and the "opposite" of the idea of wabi-sabi.
Yamamoto Kansai Company, Ltd., Tokyo, 1971, was established as a sole proprietorship. Hess' Department Store in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the first collection was launched in London and the United States the same year. He was London's first Japanese designer to have a show. Kansai is best known for his production of androgynous and futuristic stage costumes for David Bowie, most notably for his Ziggy Stardust Tour. His 1970 debut in Paris was followed by the opening of his Kansai Boutique in 1977. In 1977, he received the Tokyo Fashion Editors award. He presented his final collection for the fall/winter of 1992, but he kept lending his name to licensed goods ranging from eyeglasses to tableware. He began working as an event producer, particularly for the events he dubbed "Super Shows." As Kelly Wetherille of WWD puts it, it's a good thing.
Later career
He and Junko Koshino designed a modern interpretation of the kimono in 1999, reigniting interest in this classical style. He is also known for his avant-garde kimono designs, including ones worn by Bowie. He initiated a fashion collection in 1999 under the auspices of the India-Japan Mixed Cultural Cooperation Committee.
"Netsuki Shinten: Kansai Shugi" (or "Passionate Exhibit Kansai") was on display at the Edo-Tokyo Museum in 2008. A major retrospective of Yamamoto's art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2009 was on view. Yamamoto introduced the Skyliner train in 2010, which connects Narita Airport in Japan with central Tokyo. With a showing in the 19th New Britain Mask Festival in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea, he made a comeback to the fashion industry in July 2013. He also held a smaller scale fashion show in Tokyo and a series of live fashion shows at the Victoria & Albert Museum this year. For LV's Resort 2018 collection, Yamamoto and Louis Vuitton collaborated together to produce classic Japanese art and Kabuki-inspired patterns and prints.
Yamamoto died on July 21, 2020, after suffering acute myeloid leukemia since March 2020, which was revealed by his daughter, actress Mirai Yamamoto, on Instagram and then later on Kansai's own official account.