Friday Late, May: Yohji Yamamoto at Play

27 May 2011
18.30 - 22.00

Celebrate the quirky side of Yohji Yamamoto’s design world. Play in installations, get involved in workshops, watch a screening and enjoy the sounds of guest DJs and a live band.

All events are free and places designated on a first come, first served basis, unless stipulated otherwise.
Filming and photography will be taking place at this event.

Installations

Yohji’s Dress-Up Box
Grand Entrance
18.30–21.50
Join Russell Barratt of Randombangle and his team in this fun, tongue-in-cheek interactive installation. Choose tactile Yohji-inspired accessories, grab a few friends and pose in front of this seaside attraction-inspired backdrop.

Walkthrough Wardrobe
John Madejski Garden
18.30–21.30
Climb through this interactive sculpture made up of a series of refashioned garments that create a tunnel. Be swallowed by the occasional bright colours, the textures, weights, feel and patterns of the clothes in this secret den created by Riitta Ikonen.

Music

Bo Ningen Performs Live
Lecture Theatre
20.00 (Set will last approximately 45 minutes)
With their feral post-punk approach and hectic tempo changes, Bo Ningen has been dubbed the most exciting young band in London right now. Enjoy the big hair and big guitars and nod your head to this visceral performance-art-cummetal- cum-rock'n'roll.

DJs Tom Stanford and Chris Cotton
Grand Entrance
18.30–21.50
Chris and Tom have been playing together for ten years as part of the Londonbased DJ collective The Eclectic Aristocracy. From obscure Sixties niceties and northern soul bangers to new wave and modern indie toe tappers, their music certainly inspires the word eclectic.

Brett MAV (DJ)
John Madejski Garden
18.30–21.30
Brett's bringing a vinyl stack of underground dancefloor treasures, past and present. Drop into the garden for a style-battle soundtrack of disco beats and other bumping joints provided by the GET SOME and Secret Wars resident.

Activities

Yohji Face-off
Grand Entrance
19.00–21.30
Ever fancied a Yohji meets ‘A Clockwork Orange’ eye makeup treatment? Get a quick fix inspired by Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring-Summer 2011 catwalk makeup by makeup artist Eoin Whelan and his team.
Makeup provided by M.A.C.

Yohji VS Fashion History Stylist Battle
John Madejski Garden
Qualifiers at 20.00 and 20.30; Final at 21.00
Watch stylists Paul Joyce, Alexis Knox, Claudia Behnke and Hope Von Joel go head-to-head in battle. Working against the clock they will create either a Yohji Yamamoto look or one of his fashion ‘opponents’, Elsa Schiaparelli, Vivienne Westwood, Cristobal Balenciaga or Rei Kawakubo. Choose your side, as you determine the winner alongside our expert judges Magdalene Keaney, Fashion Space Gallery Curator, and Marcus Ross, Editor of JocksandNerds Magazine. Prizes kindly provided by the V&A Shop

Ultimate Yohji: Screenprinting Workshop
John Madejski Garden
18.30–21.30
With four Yamamoto-inspired illustrations to choose from, you have the chance to create your own tote bag keepsake. Mireille Fauchon, Abby Wright, Lesley Barnes and Rosie McGuinness have made specially-commissioned illustrations. Print them in black or red for the perfect addition to your wardrobe.

Couples Streetcasting
Outside the National Art Library
19.00–21.30
Brought your other half tonight? Then get involved in this live casting for the upcoming Yohji Yamamoto Fashion in Motion on 1 July. For the chance to walk the catwalk, straighten your clothes and brush up your attitude when you strut your stuff in front of Yamamoto’s Director of Communications, V&A fashion curators and representatives from Bacchus PR.

Cut-Out/Stick-On Fashion: Workshop with Slashstroke Magazine Team
Morris Room, Café
18.30–21.30
Create your own cut-out/stick-on paper form to wear to emulate a Nick Knight inspired Yamamoto shape. Photographer David Poole of Slashstroke Magazine will direct you in making the perfect silhouette and will snap a pic as a keepsake.

Cut & Haste: Create a Fashion Fanzine
Digital and Design Studios, Sackler Centre
18.30; 19.30 and 20.30 (sessions last approximately 30 minutes)
Create a cut-and-paste Fashion Fanzine with Rory McCartney, Editor of Arena Homme Plus magazine, and his team (graphic designer Ted Lovett, photographer Johnny Dufort and copy editor Lily Smith) as your guides.
Tickets are available from the Information Desk at the Grand Entrance from 18.30.

Talking to Yohji
Norfolk House Music Room
18.30–21.30
Is there something you always wanted to say to or draw for Yohji Yamamoto? Now is your chance as artless Inc. ’s Shun Kawakami invites you to send a message to the man himself. Selected sheets will be bound into a book and
given to the designer when he returns to the V&A in June.

Drawing from Yohji
Meet in Room 21a
18:45; 19:30; 20:15; 21:00 (sessions last approximately 30 minutes)
Join fashion illustrator and London College of Fashion lecturer Sue Dray as she leads groups of drawing enthusiasts to one of the Yamamoto satellite installations. Try your hand at free-hand sketching. Tickets are available from the Information Desk at the Grand Entrance from 18.30.

Screening

‘Brother’, a film by Takeshi Kitano
Room 47f
19.00–21.00
Pop in for your favourite scene or sit back and enjoy the entire film. ‘Brother’, Takeshi Kitano’s 2000 film, centres on a Japanese gangster exiled to the U.S. It is his first English-language film.
The film is rated 18 and contains violence, strong language and brief nudity.

Talks

Displaying Yamamoto: Costume Mounting at the V&A
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
19.15–20.00
Join V&A Textile Conservators Sarah Glenn and Rachel Lee as they take you through the process of mounting costume for display in the V&A. Watch a live demonstration of the techniques involved in this meticulous craft and hear about what happened behind-the-scenes for the mounting and installation of the Yohji Yamamoto exhibition.

Visions on Paper: Fashion Drawings from the V&A Collection
Prints & Drawings Study Room
19.45–20.30
Take a sneak peak at some wonderful new and old fashion illustrations in the
V&A collection with Curator Abraham Thomas. Learn about the medium and
our ever-growing collection and indulge in the visual splendour of this onenight-
only display.
Tickets are available from the Information Desk at the Grand Entrance from
18.30.

Contacts

Russell Barratt
www.randombangle.com

Riitta Ikonen
www.riittaikonen.com

Bo Ningen
www.myspace.com/boningen

Alexis Knox
www.alexisknox.com

Paul Joyce
www.paul-joyce.com

Claudia Behnke
www.claudiabehnke.co.uk

Mireille Fauchon
www.mireillefauchon.com

Abby Wright
www.abbywrightillustration.co.uk

Lesley Barnes
http://cargocollective.com/lesleybarnes

David Poole
www.slashstrokemagazine.com

Rory McCartney
www.rorymccartney.com

Ted Lovett
www.tedlovett.com

Lily Smith
Smithlilymsmith@gmail.com

Johnny Durfort
johnnydufort@me.com