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.
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