Quotes from Yohji Yamamoto

The more we possess, the more distant we grow from God.

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.

Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

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.

I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.

The best moments in my life are just before going to bed. Those are my happiest moments.

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'

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

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

If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

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

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

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