Fashion Designer Yohji Yamamoto Says Work Is a 'Prison' - WSJ

Yohji Yamamoto stands for humor, finesse and a wild pursuit of originality. His definition of beauty is like no one else’s — he seeks imperfection and obsessively tailors and cuts to hide the human body.

Yohji-san has developed a definition of what’s beautiful that’s his and his alone — that your clothes protect you, sure, but in doing so, they hint at the soul within and insist on your humanness.

Creative work over revenue?

— I always planned to live in a one-room apartment without any money. I don’t want to be connected to any material stuff. I like things because it’s an experience; I can be materialistic in that way, for instance, I can buy an expensive car just to explore how it is to drive it but then for me it’s more the learnin

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