Wide skirts and sportive shoes

...mixed to t-shirts with handwriting in street wear look or sleeveless elegant evening-jacket-dresses. The comfortable, chic 'Olympic Style' was presented by Y-3 for spring/summer 2012 on 11 September 2011 in New York in front of celebrities like Samuel L. Jackson.

The collection references the Summer Olympic Games 2012 in London; inspiring sources for Yohji Yamamoto are British style, Olympic sport, and the esthetics of Londoner street wear; the result is the designers creation of the Y-3 'Olympic Style'.

fig. left, right: Black skirts, white t-shirts with black handwriting, comfortable black jackets, sneakers, Y-3 spring/summer 2012. Catwalk view during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at 82 Mercer on 11 September 2011 in New York City. Photo: Fernanda Calfat/Getty Images for Y-3. (C) 2011 Getty Images.