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Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.
Yohji Yamamoto
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Yohji Yamamoto
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: October 3
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Costume Designer
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Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
City of Tokyo
Yamamoto Yohji
Yōji Yamamoto
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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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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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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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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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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
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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 have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging me.
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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'
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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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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 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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The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.
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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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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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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 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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The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.
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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 think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
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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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