38 Quotes by Yohji Yamamoto

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

People have started wasting fashion.

Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything.

Colour 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.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy – but mysterious. But above all black says this: “I don’t bother you – don’t bother me”.

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty.

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There’s only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.