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.
Interpretation
True sexiness comes from experience and imagination, not just outward appearance.
Yohji Yamamoto emphasizes that being sexy is not merely about fashion but is deeply rooted in one's experiences and creativity. The quote suggests that an individual's life experiences and the ability to imagine and express oneself uniquely contribute to their sensual appeal, highlighting the importance of personal growth and learning in enhancing one’s allure.
In practice
In a fashion seminar discussing self-expression.
I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so I’m a bit dark.
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.
In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.
It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.
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