Quote

Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.

Yohji Yamamoto

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Yohji Yamamoto
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: October 3
Artist
Costume Designer
Designer
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
City of Tokyo
Yamamoto Yohji
Yōji Yamamoto
Yamamoto Yōji
Yohji Yamamoto/Y's
Ordinary
Fashion
Lives
Managing
People
Grieving
Worn
Complete
Loving
Exist

More quotes by Yohji Yamamoto

Image
Beautiful things are disappearing every day.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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...
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
I have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging me.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
People have started wasting fashion
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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.
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
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'
Yohji Yamamoto
Image
Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
Yohji Yamamoto