Beijing's Forbidden City has played host to a special fashion show by Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto who hopes to boost the Chinese fashion scene by auctioning one-of-a-kind designs to raise funds for China's young designers.
The Japanese designer, who is based in France, personally directed and presented the fashion show at the World Heritage Site.
The show, titled "Y's", featured an Autumn/Winter collection specially designed for the event. Each piece was said to be unique and one-of-a-kind.
Yamamoto stuck to his trademark black, but introduced some colorful features. The show was charged with attitude as models dressed in leather booths and gloves brushed shoulders aggressively on the catwalk.
Fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto said, "It was kind of tough. Because I have a new type of audience, and this Forbidden City, forbidden area and this is not a usual Paris collection, so I needed, I wanted to show my very basic emotion."
In addition to raising funds for the Yohji Yamamoto Fund for Peace, which aims to give a boost to upcoming Chinese designers, the designer is also expected to launch an annual fashion design selection. He will sponsor a Chinese designer to participate in a two-year education programme in Japan or Europe. And a Chinese model from an annual competition will also be sponsored to debut at Paris Fashion Week.
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