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Yohji Yamamoto Quotes

born 1943

Yohji Yamamoto (山本耀司, Yamamoto Yōji, born 1943) is a Japanese fashion designer.

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Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.

To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing.

My Dear Bomb (2011)

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. If I can feel those things in works by others, then I like them.

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. May I Help You? in Talking to Myself (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yohji Yamamoto (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.