Yohji Yamamoto Quotes

#1. With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

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#2. Beautiful things are disappearing every day.

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#3. The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.

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#4. People have started wasting fashion

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#5. I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!

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#6. A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown ...

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#7. You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

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#8. 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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#9. I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.

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#10. 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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#11. The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.

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#12. Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.

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#15. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one's favour, 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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#16. 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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#17. I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

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

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

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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