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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.

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 have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging me.
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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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A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.
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I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts 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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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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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
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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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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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The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.
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