Yohji Yamamoto Quotes

• I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Strong   Boys   Scent  

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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.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Strong   Heart   Ideas  

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• 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.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dream   Mistake   What Matters  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Soul   Tears   Modern  

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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.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dark   Light   People  

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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'

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion   Lazy   Black  

  "Fashion's Poet of Black : YAMAMOTO" by Suzy Menkes, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2000.

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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

  Design   Missing   Pedestal  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Lying   Design   Way  

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• People have started wasting fashion

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion   People  

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• Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Lying   Shows   Clothings  

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• The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Bed   Moments   Best Moments  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Beautiful   Dirty   Broken  

  "Yohji Yamamoto: Talking to Myself". Book by Peter Lindbergh et al., 2002.

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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.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion   Eye   Simple  

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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.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Museums   People   Certain  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Beautiful   Fashion   Flower  

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• Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Self   Copying   Ends  

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• I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Inspirational   Failure   Thinking  

  "Talking to Myself (The Past, the Feminine, the Vain)". Book by Yohji Yamamoto and Kiyokazu Washida, 2002.

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• Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Black   Arrogant   Modest  

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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.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion   Want   Achieve  

  "Yohji Yamamoto: Talking to Myself". Book by Peter Lindbergh et al., 2002.

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

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Waiting   Materials   Just Listen  

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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.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Sexy   Fashion   People  

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

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Eye   Past   Walks  

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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?

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Shy   Want   Feels  

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• Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance. Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you? Fashion has no time to even ask such a question, because it is constantly concerned with finding out: What will come next? It is more about helping women to suffer less, to attain more freedom and independence.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion   Independence   Suffering  

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• The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Grows  

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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.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion   Hate   Dark  

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• Beautiful things are disappearing every day.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Beautiful   Disappear   Beautiful Things  

  "Yohji Yamamoto Off the Cuff" by Amanda Kaiser, wwd.com. September 28, 2012.

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

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Holiday   Vacation   Imagination  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Beautiful   Cutting   Gowns  

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• I have my own judge in me....and he`s always judging me.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Judging   Judge Me   My Own  

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