Yamamoto Teruji'S Love Is As Deep As Night.

Yamamoto Teruji, a Japanese fashion designer named "Black poet", was hit by bankruptcy in 2009. At that time, he once dropped such a sentence: "I am just like the Naked Emperor in the emperor's new clothes, but in order to keep Japanese fashion culture from losing to the world, I will continue to work now." He did not break his promise. Now we see the old man who has been hit by a series of comeback: his personal documentary "this is my dream" will be released this autumn. At the same time, the London museum and the V&A museum are conducting a comprehensive review of their personal works.

Obsessed with black is the shadow of war.

Of all the costumes of Yamamoto, black occupies absolute weight. In 1945, when Japan was hit by nuclear bombs, Yamamoto Teruji was just two years old. His father died in the war, and the widowed mother was a tailor. Such experience may have laid a gloomy and deep background for Yamamoto Teruji's character, which made him feel fond of black. In the eyes of Westerners, black is the color of kimono, and the fascination with black adds a few mysterious colors to the Oriental fashion master.

Although Yamamoto Teruji's childhood dream was to be a painter, he was admitted to a prestigious Japanese law school to earn his mother a safe life. The young man might have become a successful lawyer if he hadn't met Wakubo Rei in 1968. It was she who inspired Yamamoto Teruji's deep thirst for art and design, so that he resolutely stopped on the road of lawyers, and went to Japan for culture and Clothing Institute, and got a chance to study in France with scholarships. On the basis of Japan's kimono, he created a design style based on cascading, dangling and wrapping. Asymmetrical, but natural and smooth. The beautiful curves of women can make the body look elegant, just like a haiku with Oriental meaning. Yamamoto Teruji's original design style has shocked the European fashion world like a blow to the head, which has made the Asian aesthetical conception a miracle in the modern design of Westernization.

Hard childhood

"How did parents survive?" They went through a terrible war. My mother became a widow, and as my only child, I always tried very hard to be a good boy. I always did that. It's not easy to be a good person. "

Hate fashion

"From the beginning of my career, I have always been skeptical about fashion. I can say so, I hate fashion. Fashion is always following the trend, and what I want is eternal elegance. Fashion has nothing to do with eternity. "

The defect is beauty.

"If things are perfect, everything looks like sculpture, not fashion. I've never been in love with models. They look like machines, not humans. I just see mistakes, flaws and imperfections, which attract me. "

Wakubo Rei's secret affair

Yamamoto Teruji and Wakubo Rei are masters of the three masters in Japan, and their private relationships are very deep. Generally speaking, Yamamoto Teruji and Wakubo Rei were the predecessors and bole, while Yamamoto Teruji and Wakubo Ling were a group of like-minded lovers when they were young. Although they all have their own families now, they still maintain close friends between two people.

In 1968, because of meeting Wakubo Rei, Yamamoto Teruji stopped taking the road of becoming a lawyer and went to France with Wakubo Ling. At that time, the two nameless young people were totally unsure whether they could take a firm foothold in the whole fashion capital. Thanks to the already famous celebrity, they kept on blowing up the two of them, and used their contacts to help Yamamoto Teruji and Wakubo Rei to hold a fashion show in 1981. The show was controversial at that time and was described by the fashion industry as "unknown style" and "Big Bang fashion" unheard of. The Figaro newspapers reported their design series with the Japanese attack as a news headline. It laid the first foundation for the two designers later in Europe.

Yamamoto Teruji and Wakubo Rei are still lovers for a long time. But their love affair failed to withstand the test of time, and ended in Wakubo Rei's marriage to the British knitwear designer Adrian Joffey. But Yamamoto Teruji always maintained friendly relations with Wakubo Rei and his wife.