Limi Feu (born in 1974 as Limi Yamamoto) is a Japanese fashion designer. She started her label in 2000 and showed her clothes at Tokyo Fashion Week between 2000 and 2007. She made her Paris Fashion Week debut in October 2007 and was greeted with praise from fashion critics.
Feu was educated at the Ecole D'Humanité, a Swiss International boarding school in the Bernese Alps.
Feu is the daughter of designer Yohji Yamamoto. (She took a new name after stumbling upon the word "feu" in a French dictionary.)
Fashion writers have pointed to similarities between the aesthetics of Feu and her father: they both employ dark colors, large volumes, layering, and asymmetry in their designs. They have also noted, however, that her designs are streetwise and have a rock attitude, whereas her father's designs were typically romantic. To celebrate Limi Feu's 10th Anniversary, Limi Yamamoto held a special showing in Tokyo that featured seven previously unseen looks: these designs paid homage to the old fashion guard, the father of modern-day couture, Christian Dior.
References
- ^ Holgate, Mark. "Youth of Japan." Vogue (October 2007), pp230-232.
- ^ Limi Feu, Yojhi Yamamoto's daughter, has her first Paris show - International Herald Tribune
- ^ Limi Feu Spring 2008 Ready-to-Wear Collection on Style.com: Runway Review Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
- "Limi Feu's 10th Anniversary: With an Homage to Christian Dior". 12 November 2010.