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A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
Yohji Yamamoto
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Yohji Yamamoto
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: October 3
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City of Tokyo
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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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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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Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
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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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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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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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I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
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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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To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing
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Beautiful things are disappearing every day.
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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
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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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I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.
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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 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 is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.
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I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion.
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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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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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