Recently, Yasuyuki Ishii, who has been on social media for 5 years, has made a comeback, as the only Asian designer trained by Rick Owens' wife, and his title of "Asian Leather King" has been vividly reflected in the "spliced leather pants" with a market price of more than 10,000 yuan, becoming one of the most representative brands in the social media Visual Kei subculture fashion trend.
The Asian leather king, who has been silent for 5 years, has become popular due to social media trends,
Homeopathic with more "spliced leather pants", officially returning:
Disgusted with being an artist, he changed to a costume designer, and was cultivated by RO's wife as an Asian leather king
In the 80s, Yasuyuki Ishii began his career as an "object artist", from Tokyo to New York, with numerous exhibitions, and changed to fashion design because of "tired of art reselling", this artist mentality was discovered by Rick Owens' wife Michèle Lamy, and became the only Asian designer in Michelle's "3 new designers training list" at that time;
Yasuyuki Ishii designer Yasuyuki Ishii still wears Rick Owens as a nod to his daily life
Subsequently, Yasuyuki Ishii launched his personal brand Yasuyuki Ishii, transforming his talent for installation art into clothing designs that can be worn on the body, focusing on "textured leather that most fashion designers reject", using a large number of rough fabrics and time-consuming leather stitching, showing a wild temperament in the items, and was called the "Asian Leather King" by players;
Yasuyuki Ishii's masterpieces such as armor and wire clothing created after transforming into a designer
In recent years, "subculture fashion" has exploded on overseas social media, and many European and American players have also unearthed Yasuyuki Ishii's leather pants, paired with visual leather items such as 14th addiction cross leather jacket and Kmrii waist bag, creating a variety of "leather suits" style outfits that are quite topical.
Tik Tok Yasuyuki Ishii
Returning with "patchwork leather pants",
Sold out quickly, triggering a premium
Because most of Yasuyuki Ishii's items are hand-made and difficult to mass-produce, with the impact of street fashion, the brand gradually gave up quarterly show releases, and social media has been interrupted for nearly 5 years, until this year, Yasuyuki Ishii's representative "spliced leather pants" has been discovered by a large number of players, and Yasuyuki Ishii has officially returned to social media recently;
Yasuyuki Ishii
This return not only updates the preview of some items in the 24SS series, one of which is a pure black "spliced leather pants" made of deerskin, snakeskin, and cowhide, which presents a wild beauty with different textures of leather, and is priced at about 7.8k RMB.
Yasuyuki Ishii Yasuyuki Ishii 24ss
Subsequently, Yasuyuki Ishii recently updated a pair of "spliced leather pants" again, using the popular "ultra-long flared version", splicing cowhide, deerskin, crocodile skin and rabbit fur, and adding lace-ups, crosses and other details, which were booked out by avid players, and the resale price of Grailed has reached about 15,000 rmb.
Yasuyuki Ishii DESTROY Pants,ieatglitt3r
Cargo, tattoo clothing...
is also popular,
Including cost-effective, artwork selection:
止血带 Baggy Cargo，2k 左右，同样高热度
In addition to leather pants, Yasuyuki Ishii's "Tourniquet Cargo" is also popular among players, with a unique 3D three-dimensional pocket design, as well as a Raf-flavored tourniquet design, of which the Baggy version has recently been restocked, priced at about 2.5k rmb, and is sold out quickly, and it is currently difficult to find one in the secondary market;
Yasuyuki Ishii Baggy Cargo
At the same time, Yasuyuki Ishii's Bondege Cargo built in the 90s has also been relaunched by the brand, with an extremely complex winding tourniquet, which is also called crazy by Archive enthusiasts, and the new version is washed with vulcanized water to make it old, and the official price is about 1700 rmb.
上,Yasuyuki Ishii 早期 Bondege Cargo下,复刻的新版 Bondege Cargo
Fur collars, cross coats, tattoos,
All of them have become popular models of Yasuyuki Ishii
In addition to the pants, Yasuyuki Ishii's tops are also quite attractive, such as the "cross leather jacket", the designer has "poorly colored leftovers, untreated leather" in the form of defective beauty, presenting a strong Grunge look, the market price has soared from 4-5K RMB a year ago to about 15,000 RMB;
Yasuyuki Ishii x Jackrose 十字皮衣
Yasuyuki Ishii is also good at adding destruction processes to motorcycle leather clothing, such as the "uncut leather jacket" with a market price of about 3k RMB, which was once only seen in the soloist's 10,000 yuan leather jacket, and the "fur collar spliced leather jacket" covering 4 different textured leathers, which is regarded by players as the craziest stitching process in history, and is currently priced at about 20,000 RMB.
"Tattoo clothing" is also an important item of Yasuyuki Ishii, hardcore graphics and slim design generation, by many players, called "Men's Jean Paul Gautier", the price of 100 yuan, but under a large number of social media grass, the secondary market price skyrocketed to 2K-4K RMB.
Yasuyuki ??
From TikTok with 800 million views,
Visual Kei Subculture Fashion:
Yasuyuki Ishii is sought after, and it has to be mentioned that the Visual Kei culture around Japanese visual kei and manga modeling reached its cultural peak in the 90s, and their biggest fan base is the current Generation Z youth, with 800 million views on the #Visualkei topic on Tik Tok, and it has been rated as an "important subcultural aesthetics" that influenced the Tik Tok generation by some avant-garde fashion media;
Players who are deeply involved in Visual Kei's fashion have begun to come into contact with leather brands such as Yasuyuki Ishii and Kmrii, thanks to which Kmrii brought back the "studded belt bag" that Tik Tok players are keen on this year, and the 14th addition, which has been closed for 5 years, announced the launch of a high-end leather series in September in recent years, officially returning, showing the strong purchasing power of the Gen Z group;
On the bottom left, Kmrii's premium crazy rivet belt bag has been updated again this year, and it returns with a high-end line after many years of graduation on the 14th addition
As for Yasuyuki Ishii, it is because of the fanatical Visual Kei group, after many years of silence, he once again reached a new peak in his career, bringing more reputation and exposure to Yasuyuki Ishii's fashion career resume.