Yohji Yamamoto is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics. These motivational Yohji Yamamoto Quotes will completely change you.
Best Yohji Yamamoto Quotes
- “I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “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 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
- “A beautiful flower does not exist. There’s only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.” – Yohji Yamamoto
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“With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “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
- “Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “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
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“The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “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
- “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
- “Just listen to the material. What is it going to say? Just wait. Probably the material will tell you something.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “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
- “Beautiful things are disappearing every day.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “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.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “I only see the faults, flaws, the imperfections. That attracts me.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “To be modern is to tear the soul out of everything” – Yohji Yamamoto
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“People have started wasting fashion” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “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
- “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.” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “I’m going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!” – Yohji Yamamoto
- “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
- “I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can’t imagine about those things.” – Yohji Yamamoto
