History
Yoko Devereaux emerged as an art installation focused on the use of t-shirts as a form of visual communication between fashion, art, music and commerce. Taking its direct inspiration from the street wear scene in Williamsburg, the label has grown into a full menswear collection that is known for mixing New York's downtown casual style with classic tailoring techniques. Yoko Devereaux was available worldwide including the United States, Japan, Canada, Hong Kong, and Western Europe.
Yoko Devereaux was a favorite of the fashion media from the very start, receiving editorial credits in GQ, Details, DNR, Dazed and Confused, Bon, Paper. Yoko Devereaux has been seen on Pharell Williams, Josh Hartnett, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alan Cumming, the Scissor Sisters, The Brazilian Girls, The Rapture and other celebrities and musicians.
As of June 28, 2009, Yoko Devereaux has ceased operations after the announcement that parent company (Wing Son Garments / WS & Company) has been forced by internal financial issues to withdraw funding.
Read more about this topic: Yoko Devereaux
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“We know only a single science, the science of history. One can look at history from two sides and divide it into the history of nature and the history of men. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand—a center of gravity.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)