With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future. Yohji Yamamoto More Quotes by Yohji Yamamoto More Quotes From 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 lazy black fashion I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. Yohji Yamamoto failure inspirational thinking 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 Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self. Yohji Yamamoto copying ends self A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful. Yohji Yamamoto fashion flower beautiful 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 light dark people 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 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 Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything. Yohji Yamamoto clothings shows lying A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown. Yohji Yamamoto gowns cutting beautiful The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God. Yohji Yamamoto grows Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. Yohji Yamamoto fashion grieving people Men's clothing is more pure in design. It's more simple and has no decoration. Women want that. When I started designing, I wanted to make men's clothes for women. But there were no buyers for it. Now there are. I always wonder who decided that there should be a difference in the clothes of men and women. Perhaps men decided this. Yohji Yamamoto differences simple men 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 You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty Yohji Yamamoto design lying way Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me. Yohji Yamamoto broken beautiful dirty 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 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 what-matters dream mistake 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 achieve fashion want I believe that there are three conditions to a woman’s beauty. First, you must realize that not all women are beautiful all of the time. Sometimes beauty comes on a subconscious level. When she is in love, or has met someone new and exciting, she shines. Second, you must understand that life is unfair. Beauty is something that, for some, must be worked at. The third condition is luck. Some women can just be lucky. Yohji Yamamoto shining beautiful believe
