Fashion finally catches up with Yohji

As London’s Victoria and Albert museum prepares to stage a long overdue retrospective, it appears that fashion is finally catching up with Yohji Yamamoto.
Witness Gaultier’s use of Neoprene, or Tomas Maier’s distressed Prince of Wales check for Bottega Veneta.  Designers are finally embracing Yamamoto’s idiosyncratic use of textiles.
And to Yohji Yamamoto, fabric is “everything”.  The fabric is