A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.
Yohji YamamotoStart copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
Yohji YamamotoColour 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 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 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 Yamamoto