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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: 80
Born: 1943
Born: October 3
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Fashion Designer
City of Tokyo
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A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.
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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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The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.
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You can say that designing is quite easy the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty
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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.
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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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I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!
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