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Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.

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
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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'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!
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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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Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
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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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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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I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
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To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing
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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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People have started wasting fashion
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Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.
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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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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 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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A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.
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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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I have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging me.
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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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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
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