Photographer Mr. Yasaka

The news conference of KENZO20 18 pays tribute to two muses, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Sayoko Yamaguchi. One brings a modern perspective to the brand, and the other represents the past. Ryuichi Sakamoto should know many people, and he was the master of music of the last emperor.

Sayoko Yamaguchi may know fewer people. She is one of the early supermodels in the world and the muse of Mr. Kenji Takada. It is also an unforgettable face of the times in Shiseido advertisements.

At present, China is basically occupied by Liu Wen, Du Fu, Sun Feifei, Ming Xi and Xiaowen Qu, and only tao okamoto is in Japan.

But as early as 1970s, Sayoko Yamaguchi was the only oriental model standing on the international stage. Even today, her image represents the mainstream aesthetics of oriental women in Europe and America.

Li Bihua wrote in Pan Jinlian's Past Lives:

He saw a photo album of Sayoko Yamaguchi. He was like a snake demon, lying gently on the tatami. The horizontal plaque says "sit on flowers and get drunk on the moon" ...

She is the chief model in Japan, and he is determined to invite her to wear his clothes when she becomes famous.

Sayoko was born in his forties, and his eyebrows are among the best today. Temperament is reminiscent of your highness in Taisho period, which is the outstanding sharp beauty. Mysterious and not ridiculous, she is an out-and-out Japanese beauty.

In Kenzō Takada's eyes, she: "There is a strong aura, just like" The Story of Hui Ye "(a fairy in Japanese creation)."

Serge Lutens, a fashion guru who filmed Shiseido advertisements, said: "Sayoko is a girl with an adult face."

As a girl, Sayoko is pure and elegant. Like weeping willows, or some white fragrant flowers.

She was exposed to fashion since she was a child. Mother made her many beautiful clothes according to European and American magazines.

197 1 year, Sayoko officially made her debut as a model. But at that time, the modeling world all over the world admired the beauty of the west. Similar to the experience of China Machado, the first Asian supermodel who died two years ago, Sayoko is hard to get recognition, but it is easy to get opportunities in the European fashion world where white people are in power and lack oriental faces.

It was Kansai Yamamoto, who was about to invade Paris, who discovered the unique charm of Paris. A few years later, the man who made clothes for David Bowie. He kept telling Sayoko that he must be bold and ignore outside voices. In the following decades, the two men cooperated many times and published many classic works.

Kansai Yamamoto designed costumes for the concert of Ziggy Stardust in David Bowie in the1970s.

Kansai Yamamoto loves to seek inspiration from traditional Japanese dramas, and his clothes are designed with peculiar tailoring, which is completely different from the route of western designers at that time. These oriental designs are strikingly consistent with Sayoko Yamaguchi.

The world began to notice this mysterious oriental face.

Sayoko became the first Asian model to appear in Paris Fashion Week in that era. Later, invitations from various brands poured in, and she performed catwalks for more famous brands such as YSL and Issey Miyake. She has her own aura on the runway.

Sayoko, who is not outstanding in height, has explored a set of his own walking methods: padding, crossing and rotating ... constantly changing the pace under his feet, increasing body language, and showing his figure to the maximum extent.

She said: "It is very important to wear a sense of nature, and talents are the real protagonists."

"Speaking of wearing, there is nothing on earth that I can't wear. I am confident that I can wear clothes, trees, airplanes, walls, buildings, televisions, electricity and blackboards. I think I have to wear everything. "

1973, becoming the exclusive model of Shiseido. As we all know, under the leadership of the first president, Shin Fukuhara Taro, Shiseido attached great importance to art. At that time, Shiseido was already very famous in Japan, but it was still a breath away from high-end foreign-style international big-name models. Therefore, Shiseido hired Serge Lutens, a former French Vogue stylist (his perfume of the same name is still a masterpiece of salon perfume industry) as its creative director.

A series of posters designed by Serge Luetens when he was the artistic and creative director of Shiseido from 1980 to 1999.

To tell the truth, if you take off the product and put it directly in the gallery auction house, it will definitely work at a high price.

Although "artworks" are too rampant now, you can see the difference between "beautiful advertisements" and "artistic creation" at a glance by putting another advertisement together with Lutens' design.

Lootens and Sayoko started an era together.

For outsiders, these words are nothing to listen to. For insiders, these words mean "art+creativity+East-West integration+classical future crossing+realistic fantasy intersection ..."

Handsome, beautiful, classic, dreamy, whatever you say, it's no exaggeration.

Sayoko under the lens of Surge Lutens, just like the Japanese woman in the ukiyo-e painting copied by the impressionist painter, completely restored the essence of Japanese silence. This series of advertisements is still one of Shiseido's most influential advertisements.

After nearly half a century, these advertisements can still make people lose their minds. Let Shiseido stand out among many European and American make-up brands and shine brilliantly within five years of entering France.

Her most cooperative fashion brand is Yves Saint Laurent YSL.

Saint Laurent himself was fascinated by Sayoko's face full of oriental charm. When taking the position for YSL, only Sayoko, as a representative of Japanese women, stood out among the western model groups.

1982, Yves Saint Laurent fashion show.

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The door of fashion is completely open for her.

Snow skin, red lips, slender almond eyes and dark bangs are the most iconic shapes of Sayoko Yamaguchi.

She has a ghostly charm, as if she doesn't belong to the real world. When we describe a beautiful woman, we will say "too beautiful to be true". On the contrary, Sayoko Yamaguchi looks beautiful because she is very unreal.

The beauty of Japan, which made her repeatedly rejected, later became a sharp weapon for her to capture the West. ...

Sayoko started taking photos for big-name magazines, and she was also one of the best Asian supermodels of that era, appearing in VOGUE.

From 65438 to 0977, Sayoko was selected as "one of the six models" by Newsweek, which was the first time that an Asian was selected.

Because it is so unique, a well-known British clothing doll company also created a Sayoko model doll based on Sayoko, which is specially used to make prints for designers. She is also the first Asian model to win this award.

La vie en rose's rose pink plate was inspired by a photo of Sayoko.

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The most successful album aja by Steely Dan, a veteran jazz rock band, has a famous photographer Hideki Fujii on the cover and a model Sayoko Yamaguchi. This album ranked 145 in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 strongest albums of all time.

In the1980s, Sayoko Yamaguchi faded out of the modeling industry and turned his attention to art, drama and film.

But fashion never forgets her.

After she faded out, every once in a while, there will be clothes and designs that complement Sayoko's style, and she has already become a classic fashion idol in people's minds.

In "Shanghai Exotic Prostitute House", she is an unforgettable girl with a yellow flag.

Sayoko Yamaguchi and Seijun Suzuki.

On 20 15, experts from all walks of life in the circle filmed the documentary Sayoko in the Ice Crater according to Half Life.

In 2007, 57-year-old Sayoko died of acute pneumonia at home, and was found by a friend who came to the door three days later.

She has never been married, and there is little news about her private life. Leaving only cool images to witness the legend of the last century.

NHK TV has collected information about her in the archive and shown a commemorative short film. There is a rare interview video in middle age.

The host asked Sayoko, "You look so mysterious. What is daily life like? "

Sayoko smiled happily: "Very ordinary. Just get up in the morning and drink some white water like a normal person. "

When she smiles, she is a girl.

The so-called fashion idol is someone who can get rid of the trend. Even after she left, it remained an irreplaceable legend.

Finally, let's recall the unrepeatable beauty of Sayoko Yamaguchi.

KENZO20 18 press conference viewing address: /video/av 18978092.

PS: The first supermodel in Asia, China Machado, Serge Lutens, Huang Liushuang, Bai Guang, who do you want to see? Write them down one by one sometime.