In a moment where fashion shows have turned into splashy spectacles meant to be captured from every angle on myriad devices and evaluated by their resonance in the digital ether, Yohji Yamamoto wanted a more intimate experience.

Not through a FOMO-inducing reduction in seating, mind you.

A note left on each chair at his spring show enjoined guests to use their eyes rather than their phones.

“Let the moment, the movement and the clothing speak to you – they are meant to be felt with your senses, not merely digitally recorded,” it added.

You certainly needed to have your eyes peeled to take in the details – and your wits about you to trace filiations in the subtle turn of a shoulder, the structure of a jacket with delicate fraying panels or an asymmetrical neckline delicately revealing t

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