Yohji Yamamoto Menswear Autumn 2026

In recent years—and as recently as last season—the men’s collections from Yohji Yamamoto have provided a platform for posting messages. Some seemed prophetic, others poetic; what mattered was how the words could be worn to communicate and were unrelated to branding or logos. The multi-layered and multi-tonal looks of today’s line-up came and went without any writing, yet the clothes spoke volumes. The volumes were pronounced with padding along arms and down the legs, so that no matter the man’s morphology, they all projected a similar shape. But the bulkiness was counterbalanced by the polish of infantry buttons that also existed to modify the silhouettes. Elements of mechanic and military uniforms were merging into hybrids—the utility and regimental details occupying the same sartorial terrain.