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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: 80
Born: 1943
Born: October 3
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City of Tokyo
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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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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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People have started wasting fashion
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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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I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.
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I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!
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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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Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.
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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
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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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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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To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing
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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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I have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging 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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The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.
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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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