A blast of fashion literature
It's been a tough couple of years for Yohji Yamamoto. Arguably Japan's most prominent fashion designer, Yamamoto, who broke into the European fashion arena in the early 1980s, filed for bankruptcy in 2009 after years of aggressive expansion in the United States and Europe.
After shuttering several stores and a few months of recovering from battered pride, the great man found a new investor — private equity firm Integral Corp. — and he is back on track once more.