Issey Miyake
technical pleated RTW
Avant Designer · Japan
Similar price, worse made
Quality
8.5/10
Price
$$$$+
Design
10 of 10
Reputation
9 of 10
Balanced
Yohji Yamamoto
Yohji Yamamoto at a glance
Quality
Price
$$$$+Designer labels average 8.5
Value
4.9Better value than 14% of labels
Typical US prices
tees $240, knitwear $680, outerwear $1490-2320
Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese avant designer label best known for draped black tailoring — quality 9/10, leaning timeless.
Editor’s note — Decades-stable signature vocabulary; more timeless than trend-led.
Scores
Design
10 of 10
Reputation
9 of 10
Style
Quality 9 — joint 2nd of 20 avant-garde designer brands (average 8.0). Value 4.9 — joint 309th of 370 for quality against price; not on the Value Frontier.
Scores last reviewed July 6, 2026 · Sources: theshopyohjiyamamoto.com (opens in a new tab), fabricateurialist.substack.com (opens in a new tab), Styleforum (opens in a new tab) · How we score
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