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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.

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
Yamamoto Yohji
Yōji Yamamoto
Yamamoto Yōji
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Teamwork
Life
Exchange
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Personal
Inspiration
Creative
Culture
Ideas
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With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
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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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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.
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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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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.
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Beautiful things are disappearing every day.
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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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Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
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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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A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.
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A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
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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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I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.
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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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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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You can say that designing is quite easy the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty
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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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