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Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.

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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Stained
Withered
Dirty
Broken
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Men's clothing is more pure in design. It's more simple and has no decoration. Women want that. When I started designing, I wanted to make men's clothes for women. But there were no buyers for it. Now there are. I always wonder who decided that there should be a difference in the clothes of men and women. Perhaps men decided this.
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Beautiful things are disappearing every day.
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People have started wasting fashion
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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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Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
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To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing
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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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Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.
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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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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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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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Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.
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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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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
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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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A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
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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 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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I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
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