For the Y’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection, Max Vadukul returns to Tokyo — not for neon, crowds, or cliché — but to strip the city to its bones and capture the essence of Y’s. Tokyo Girls explores anonymity, tension, and the surreal theatre of urban life
“I didn’t want the Tokyo everyone expects. No neon, no crossings. I wanted emptiness, pressure, surveillance — a strange kind of elegance,” says Vadukul.
This is not traditional fashion photography. It’s performance. The actress Ai Hashimoto, along with three performers, appears not as models, but as characters moving in a psychological landscape — uniformed yet distinct. Surrounding them, Shadow Cameraman — create tension, shadow, and narrative.
The visual story is amplifi ed through the legendary graphic design of Claudio Dell’Olio, whose precision and artistry shape the project into a statement object — raw, elegant, and unmistakably Y’s. Complementing the photography, a powerful video animation by Daniele Basilico extends the narrative into motion — adding another layer of depth, rhythm, and texture to the project. Tokyo Girls captures the same spirit and velocity that fi rst defi ned Vadukul’s early works for Yohji in the 1980s — a dialogue between elegance and imperfection, control and chaos.
Photographer: Max Vadukul
Performers: Ai Hashimoto, Kiko Arai, SEN, Tennessee King
Paparazzi Performers: Ryuju Kobayashi, Tatsuro Omura, TXBONE
Hair: Keiko Tada
Make-Up: Masayo Tsuda Master Retoucher: David Hazan, picturehouse - thesmalldarkroom
Catalogue Design: Claudio Dell’Olio
Video Animation: Daniele Basilico
