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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
Yohji Yamamoto
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Yohji Yamamoto
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: October 3
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Costume Designer
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Fashion Designer
City of Tokyo
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Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance. Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you? Fashion has no time to even ask such a question, because it is constantly concerned with finding out: What will come next? It is more about helping women to suffer less, to attain more freedom and independence.
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Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
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I have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging me.
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It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.
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If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?
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I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.
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I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style.
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A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
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At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.
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My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.
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I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion.
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I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.
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I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.
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Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.
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Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.
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I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so I’m a bit dark.
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A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.
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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
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There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.
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Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.
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