In the latest chapter of 10·Corso·Como, Tiziana Fausti’s vision brings forth an exhibition space dedicated to fashion culture, featuring a special project by the designer renowned for his distinctive aesthetics and imagery: Yohji Yamamoto, the poet of black. Throughout his career, Yamamoto has challenged fashion conventions, redefining beauty and subverting stereotypes in pursuit of a new geography of the body and a universal silhouette.

Organized by 10·Corso·Como and Yohji Yamamoto, curated by Alessio de′ Navasques – curator and professor of Fashion Archives at Sapienza University of Rome – the project gathers iconic pieces from the runway alongside recent and future collections, creating an immersive journey from May 16 to July 31, 2024. The Gallery’s renovated space, returned to its industrial essence, offers a pure and linear layout, echoing a timeless and universal beauty.

The brightness of 10·Corso·Como’s renovated gallery – returned to its essence as an industrial space – evokes a pure and linear layout to restore an infinite and universal, mysterious beauty. In a path conceived as a single installation, Yohji Yamamoto’s message to Milan and Italy as a place of creativity par excellence is clear. “I want to draw time” he had stated in the idea of continuity between past and present, which he has shared throughout his career. The exhibition itinerary examines the body of work of the designer who made poetry of structured, yet ethereal, cut and reassembled pieces – where he penetrates the space of our thoughts, our emotions – his unmistakable signature.

A reflection on the universal significance of form through the absolute colors white, black, and red: clothing becomes language in a narrative of the interplay between body and space. For the designer, it’s not about a body objectified by signs and gender codes, but rather a body that influences and transforms the garment: a radical fashion that celebrates the wearer’s inner self.