How Did Yamamoto Teruji Turn From Designer To Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva?

People who wear Yamamoto Teruji to worship the five masters

In June, in Beijing, the weather was so hot that people felt like melting ice cream outside the house. But in the Mount Wutai of Shanxi, more than 300 kilometers away, still felt a touch of coolness. Even in the early morning, there was a slight chill. Tony from Guangzhou wrapped himself tightly in the quilt. He did not want to escape from the damp heat in south Guangdong, and after the sun baked in Beijing, it would eventually be frozen in Mount Wutai.

"Accompany me to pay a visit to Mount Wutai. I heard that the five Buddha Temple is very efficacious. My Mandarin is so rotten. Don't be deceived by yourself." Tony asked me on WeChat half a month ago. He said that his luck was not very good recently. He was instructing by a numeric master in Hongkong to go to Mount Wutai, and to point out that the five Buddha Temple must go.

Despite the rectification of the scenic spots of Mount Wutai, the phenomenon of high price incense has been controlled, but the five yeas temple, which is always full of incense, is still noisy. At five o'clock in the morning, the believers who came to worship were lined up. There was no lack of male and female believers in the team, such as the rocket gun high fragrance. "Master, Amitabha, do you have WeChat? I'll spanfer it to you, and make a good connection. I want to set up a stage for five." Legend has it that the five masters are the embodiment of Manjusri Bodhisattva, which is more demanding than any other temple in Mount Wutai. There are also five legends of the Dragon King, who once asked the emperor of Kangxi to dream, and then he had the five temple. The five God punished the evil and promoted the good, but he was very fond of listening to the opera. Therefore, since ancient times, the way to return to the five Lord is to set up a troupe to sing the opera.

"In Guangdong, Chaoshan, there is also the habit of singing opera, but that is for the great fairy, the ghosts, and some people say it is seen in the breeze, it is ghosts! Someone on the stage is singing, but no one on the stage..." Tony, God told me mysteriously. "Coming in and coming in." I came back to him with bad Cantonese, and Tony's smile proved that I was very poor.

Five Yee temple was not big, but there were too many believers, and Tony and I were soon divided by the crowd. Under the solemn but dim light of the Buddha, the red dust men and women who can compare with the tide of the spring spanportation station three worship nine knocks, the mouth talks about the wish which oneself makes to the five gentleman. It seems that the five gentlemen are in the sky and have to work 24 hours a year to cope with this battle.

Ah, ah, ah. Although I have emphasized many times that I no longer call the English name of "Bill", Tony still can not remember, "ah Biao" is exactly what Cantonese calls Bill.

"There was a teacher who said that I had a lot of Buddhism. He showed me his conversion certificate, and I gave him 1000 yuan." Tony told me excitedly.

I suspect that the master may have confused the difference between Taoism and Buddhism, because Tony's looks and dress are really a little bit of the strength of a fairy tale: the long hair is tied up with a long white hair and a white beard, 1.8 meter of the lean figure, and looks like an oriental Taoist priest with the five facial features. Most importantly, he wears Yamamoto Teruji: a loose thin. Wool trousers Yes. Designer A pair of trousers that do not wear clothes to fight and can not win; a pure white. Long shirt It seems simple, but the material is good. It occupies the majority of its 10 Corso Como founder, Carla Sozzani, and the wardrobe of the boutique buyer shop. I laugh at the fact that Tony is a "making goods" and even wears Yamamoto Teruji in the morning to burn incense and worship Buddha. But he disagrees: "then, do you want to buy anything like that, do not buy anything, wait for an antique shop?"

Tony, 39, said he liked to go up to Yamamoto from the age of 20. "At that time, I didn't know what fashion was called. My mother took several Japanese magazines on the business trip. There were pictures of men's clothing in spring and summer of Yohji Yamamoto 1998, and I liked it very much at that time." From then on, Tony began to crave the Japanese brand crazily. "My first Yohji Yamamoto was bought in Hongkong more than 10 years ago, when I worked as an assistant in an interior design company. My salary was 9000 Hong Kong dollars in the first month. I ran to Joyce and bought a Yohji jacket. I spent more than 4000 yuan on it for half a month, and I put eggs on my own at home. Later, I bought a booklet designed by eBay Paris on MM. Up to now, Tony will buy one or two pieces of Yamamoto Teruji's clothes every season. "2016 spring and summer, I bought a black long shirt, a three buckle jacket, two pairs of socks, which were bought on Farfetch. The store is still expensive. I have to supply two buildings, drive to spend money, and I have to give them to my family. All my other clothes are COS and Uniqlo. "

"Then you buy it, and it costs a lot of money to buy it online." I asked.

"Yes, I thought from the beginning that wearing Yohji is the choice of our kind."

"What kind of people?"

"That's what we did in those days: design, creative (design, creativity)! Young people always want to be different, but they don't want to be too old and eccentric. Yohji's temperament is quite similar, and the brand is relatively small." German director Wim Wenders described in his 1989 documentary "urban fashion shorthand" that he wore the clothes of the former design: "I bought a shirt and a coat, and usually when I put on new clothes, I felt as excited as a new skin of Wenders." But now wearing the new clothes he designed, I feel like wearing the clothes of the elderly. "At that time, Tony might have the same feeling with Wim Wenders, but because he was young, because he longed for recognition and position, he chose Yamamoto Teruji.

"But now I won't tell anyone that I like Yamamoto."

"Why?"

"When you get older, you can see Yamamoto Teruji's circle of friends. They are all Yamamoto Teruji. It looks like Yamamoto Teruji is like a God. I don't think he said anything in some articles."

It is almost no doubt that Tony has seen more than half of heaven and earth and people and things in his life. It is time to prepare to see himself. Yamamoto Teruji has gradually become the clothes he used to wear.

The God of social media

When did Yamamoto Teruji become a god like existence in domestic social media, but all kinds of quotations under the banner of Yamamoto Teruji almost swept through WeChat's circle of friends for a short time, and the audience was so shocking that all the students from universities, fashion, creative practitioners and even the laymen who knew nothing about fashion: "I often read my daughter's post in the circle of friends about this man. I went in to see what philosopher he said. What did he say in 90s that Tokyo girl turned into a famous brand bag to become a female aid, saying that young people don't like to think..." Later, I checked it online. It turned out to be a fashion designer, Japanese. Professor Wu, who teaches at Nankai University in Tianjin, said.

"Then what do you think of him?"

"I asked our female colleague who studied art before. Did you know that there was a designer named Yamamoto Teruji? She said she knew, and gave me two books, one called" making clothes "and one called" I cast a bomb ". Later I turned over, and I couldn't understand what you did in fashion, but some of them were philosophical.

"For example?"

"Encourage people to think, do not drift with the tide."

"Then do you think your daughter will be useful after seeing it?"

"It's no use. I always say my daughter, don't stare at those Korean dramas every day, and can't see a way out. I'm laughing and laughing. I said," would you like to talk about a love affair back? Twenty six seven people, coming back from work is playing cell phones and watching TV shows. The most important thing she told me is Dad, do you see this beautiful self timer? "

Shortly afterwards, I saw Professor Wu's circle of friends turning a WeChat push on Yamamoto Teruji.

Namo Yamamoto Teruji

"Yamamoto Teruji is here, at Lexus's activities." In April this year, the automobile brand Lexus opened the advertisement of its GS series sedan and Yamamoto Teruji's cooperation in China, and invited Yamamoto Teruji to attend her own. The video interview with the former Business of Fashion also caused the phenomenon of the circle of friends. Last week, WeChat content, which is called "social impetuous, too many young girls' prostitutes face", quickly swept through the social media in China. Before that, the Yamamoto quotations like "I hate the kind of women who don't pay for their own clothes" and "I just want nothing to do" have become a viral marketing paradigm. "Fashion Rinpoche", "fashion big IP", "spiritual mentor" such labels are endless. Basically, in China, anything that goes with Yamamoto Teruji can become a bomb, but the proportion of the designer's clothes is probably not big: "Shan Ben Yao Si is not selling very well in us. As a general rule, young customers come to try out more clothes. There are also guests who say why such a simple dress is still so expensive, or the upper body is not very good, and his clothes are quite picking." The sales director of a buyer's shop in China said.

After asking more than 20 people who regularly or occasionally forwarded this kind of quotations or interest to friends circle or micro-blog, they came to the conclusion that whether they understood Yamamoto Teruji or his works, most of them said that they are now in the last French era, and this man who once emphasized himself as a man of clothes represents their voices and opinions.

"Yamamoto Teruji is almost as old as Yu Dan now. Now there's so much information, so much trouble, and so many chicken soup that there must be a spiritual leader. What he said, or those quotes that others exaggerated, played the role." Li Ran, a journalist who worked in a news agency in Shanghai, said she is currently studying the issue of the influence of popular culture on society in different times.

"To be yourself" is a cliche, but just like if there is no mirror, we will never see the appearance of ourselves. "Self" often needs to appear in the lining of others. "Ridiculous, Yohji is most often exclaimed that people want to think, resist, everyone is equally meaningless. Chinese people also want to learn without thinking. But now it seems that few people are willing to think about it. Most of them want to stand on the shoulders of great men. Now my architects always say they want to go to New York and London to see the works of masters, but no one is willing to think about minor things happening around them, but architecture is not huge and magnificent. Tony sighed. What is the thinking about fashion? It is so shallow, shallow and crazy that the material men and women will feel that changing a new set of clothes is equivalent to being reborn and defining themselves; it is so profound and profound that almost everyone can not resist its superficiality.

"You see, when you were killed, you asked God to ask the hexagram, and he was burning incense in Yamamoto Teruji." I want to freeze him.

"Bodhisattva is good, Bodhisattva saves lives."

It is true that Buddhists say that everyone is Buddha, and the reason for this life is to be seen in the afterlife. But if the world loses its way, the vulgar will read a "namo Guanyin Bodhisattva" and ask the Bodhisattva to save our ancestors from the sea of bitterness. Although the Buddha also said that putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha, it is better to ask for oneself.

But for those who exclaim today's world disorder, eager to get rid of it, but do not know how to ask for it, keen to forward Yamamoto Teruji's quotation, there are some changes in the French code.

Nan Wu Yamamoto Teruji.