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Born in Yokohama in 1943 Yohji Yamamoto (Yohji Yamamoto), Tokyo City tailor mother. Since the late 1960s, young Yohji Yamamoto began to tailor services to help mothers care. Tokyo's tailors time low status, they must go home door to door to do business, and can only take the small door. Cutting in the clothing, there are also no idea of their own, only carefully the style popular in the West according to the effectiveness of the employer.

However, Yohji Yamamoto is not willing to so. After he graduated from law school went to Europe and stayed in Paris for some time. Back in Japan, he was determined never to let others see themselves as inferior, because he has recognized that, like fashion design and painting can become a creative art.

1972 Yohji Yamamoto built his own studio, and in the mid 70s to be recognized as representative of avant-garde. Not only that, he and another pioneer Kawakubo Ling, meet regularly, and plunged into a protracted affair in Platonic. Interestingly, Yohji Yamamoto and Kawakubo still Ling's husband, British fashion designer Adrian Joffey weaving contact and "exchange" the Kawakubo Ling's story: "When we set foot in Paris, the press is saying that we wear the typical Japanese costume, and in Japan we have been considered too avant-garde. "

In 1981, Yohji Yamamoto and Kawakubo bell held in Paris in controversial fashion exhibition, according to "The Guardian" fashion editor Brenda Polan recalled: "Before then, Paris has never been the kind of black, bold, loose clothing, They gave rise to a traditional beauty, elegance and sex debate. "and Yohji Yamamoto and Kawakubo Bell is worried about:" We all think we are very international, but in the international arena, the media or to us to do, defined as' Japanese style '. "

Experienced the depression of the early 1990s, the mountain this assuming new passion into the work. Despite his bad mood for some time, but would like to knowingly do some ugly clothes. But soon he was completely fascinated by a kind of timeless beauty.