The French capital’s incessant rain during the weekend didn’t stop the hundreds of guests – including numerous celebrities – from wearing their best and darkest looks to the Y-3 by Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto show, held during Paris Fashion Week at 46 Rue Cambon.
Black is the most prominent colour in the brand’s collections, that’s why on entering the location where the event took place it was the only thing you could see or in other words complete darkness, illuminated occasionally by the crowd of photographers and their respective flashes shooting the front row as if there was no tomorrow. But that darkness was suddenly cut short by the large immersive L.E.D. screen that began to take on a life of its own, ascending vertically, resembling a surreal sports jumbotron, finally enveloping the room with the characteristic Adidas stripes, a recurring and reimagined motif in the design of this work.
From that moment on, iconic sports and cultural figures such as basketball legend Candance Parker, skateboarder Marcos Montoya, footballer Djibril Cissé, and model Gabriette, began to walk the runway with ease wearing the Fall/Winter 2025 collection’s looks – based on the symbiotic divergence between performance innovation and creative expression – and footwear of different styles, such as high-performance running shoes or Adidas GSG9 combat boots.
When it comes to clothing, the collection features striking silhouettes, subverted through the lens of functional sports equipment designed to protect the body – expressed through knee-length padded trousers, padded sleeves, and insulated T-shirts, hoodies, and bags. Meanwhile, form takes centre stage, as cinches carefully control the space between the body and the drape of the garments.
As part of the presentation, a special collaboration between Y-3 and Japanese brand NEIGHBORHOOD, dubbed “Y-3-N”, was unveiled on the gleaming white catwalk to challenge the status quo and tell the story of how culture embraces the iconography of motorcycling. In it, you can find numerous pieces with custom Death Spray Custom artwork and protective leather garments suitable for speed, made in collaboration with Italian racing company Dainese; see examples of specific racing suits and motorbike helmets.
Undeniably, Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas are the perfect example of how to successfully fuse fashion and sport, while at the same time fusing innovation, a detail represented by the Japanese Suibokuga ink techniques that emulate fossilised amber, capture and externalise artefacts along the ions, among others.
Have a look at the Y-3 collection below:
