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I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!
Yohji Yamamoto
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Yohji Yamamoto
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: October 3
Artist
Costume Designer
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Fashion Designer
City of Tokyo
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Yōji Yamamoto
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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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Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
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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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A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
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Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.
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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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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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I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.
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A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.
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I have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging me.
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I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
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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 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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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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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
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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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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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People have started wasting fashion
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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
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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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