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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.
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'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!
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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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Beautiful things are disappearing every day.
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I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.
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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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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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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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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. 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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Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.
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The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.
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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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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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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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A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
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Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
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