Yohji Yamamoto quotes

Yohji Yamamoto is a renowned Japanese fashion designer known for his avant-garde and innovative approach to clothing. His creations often challenge traditional concepts of beauty through asymmetric designs and monochromatic palettes. He has influenced the global fashion industry with his distinctive vision and collaborations. Here are 7 of his quotes:

In 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

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

Yohji Yamamoto

Generally speaking, I am not interested in the future and don't believe in it. First, I guess it is true that I don't trust the future, but, more to the point, I don't even trust the "myself" of tomorrow, nor, for that matter, of the day after. Basically, all I know, and all I am capable of understanding, is the "me" that is here, now, the "me" that has dragged his past with him to this point.

Yohji Yamamoto

My whole life is made up of: "I'm sorry". I feel like I have to apologize to people, to things, to life itself. It's like, "I'm sorry to be here". I don't want to disturb anyone. But in my work, in the clothes I create, I'm actually telling people that I'm here. So, I guess I'm disturbing them, after all.

Yohji Yamamoto

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.

Yohji Yamamoto

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

Yohji Yamamoto