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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

Yohji Yamamoto

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Yohji Yamamoto
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: October 3
Artist
Costume Designer
Designer
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
City of Tokyo
Yamamoto Yohji
Yōji Yamamoto
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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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The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.
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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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I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.
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I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!
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A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.
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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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People have started wasting fashion
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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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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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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
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Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.
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Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
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I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display.
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I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.
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Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.
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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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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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A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
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The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.
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