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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
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Wasting
Fashion

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I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.
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In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of cutting off) is linked in some way to elegance. Elegance and so-called eliminating excess, or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...
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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
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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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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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I have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging me.
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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
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Men's clothing is more pure in design. It's more simple and has no decoration. Women want that. When I started designing, I wanted to make men's clothes for women. But there were no buyers for it. Now there are. I always wonder who decided that there should be a difference in the clothes of men and women. Perhaps men decided this.
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Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
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Beautiful things are disappearing every day.
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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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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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The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.
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A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.
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To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing
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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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Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.
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