Yohji Yamamoto 2000SS Runway Contrast-Stitch Maxi Dress

From Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer 2000 collection, which explored the process of garment construction by exposing the visual language of the toile—basting stitches, seam lines and deliberately unfinished-looking structures. This black floor-length dress traces the body with long lines of contrasting white hand-style stitching, turning construction marks into the primary decoration and giving the restrained column silhouette the appearance of a garment still in the process of being made.