YOHJI, BARE

 

This is Yohji Yamamoto 81 year old Japanese ‘master of fashion’ (I’m quoting the Financial Times).  

 

And in an interview in that paper he says, ‘Today my meditation happens when my son visits me in Tokyo and we walk the dog together.  It’s my happiest moment.  I wake up naturally at five in the morning and wait for my son who wakes up at six. Then we walk for one hour. There’s the push and pull of the lead in my hand.  As my dog leads I follow.  In that moment I meditate.’

 

Well OK. Meditation, we know comes I many, many forms.  

 

Elsewhere he says, ‘I have travelled all around the world, mostly walking around, looking at landscapes, rocky sceneries, and plants and flowers. Nature is incredibly strong. I have said to myself that I will never be able to design such beauty.’

    What took you so long, Yohji?

This is a pair of sneakers he designed.  429 quid to you.