I believe that there are three conditions to a womanโs 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 YamamotoIt meant something to me โ the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a womanโs body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining oneโs 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 YamamotoI exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.
Yohji YamamotoI hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. โI never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so Iโm a bit dark.
Yohji YamamotoIn order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...
Yohji Yamamoto