[6] Kansai became famed for creating androgynous and futuristic stage costumes for David Bowie – most notably for his Ziggy Stardust Tour.

As Kelly Wetherille writing for WWD puts it:[12] In the early Nineties, after two decades of showing and selling his avant-garde collections in London, Paris and New York, Yamamoto took a hiatus from the fashion world to focus on live entertainment events.

His Super Shows, as he called them, combined elements of music, dance, acrobatics, traditional Japanese festivals and other spectacles, and were performed around the world, from Vietnam and India to Russia and Japan.

The first such event, in Moscow’s Red Square in 1993, drew a crowd of 120,000.In 1999, he and Junko Koshino created a modern version of the kimono, reviving interest in this classical fashion.

[6] In 2018 Yamamoto and Louis Vuitton worked together to create classic Japanese art and Kabuki-inspired patterns and prints for LV's Resort 2018 collection.