But first, a selection of quotes which called out to me.
“So I don’t change; at the beginning I was always angry, still angry, that is what makes my motivation power to create beauty.” Yohji Yamamoto says.
The writer for Vogue finds Yamamoto’s pieces peaceful
“I mostly find Yohji’s collections peaceful and I asked him if that was just an illusion.”
“An illusion – yes – sometimes I lose my anger, so sometimes I lose my power, the power to shout anti-something – and then it looks peaceful,” he said. “
“Yohji had started our conversation by saying that he was angry. So I asked him why.”
“It’s very simple – I was born as a war child and in the first year of high school I read about how my father passed away in the war. It was 1944, just one year before it ended. He was 36 years old. A 36-year-old man was sent to war. America already had won everything. So he’s on the boat, fishing boat, and it sunk.”
“About ten or fifteen years ago I started feeling maybe my father was pushing my back,” Yohji went on. “At the same time I felt angry. My country and its people were stupid. Because America already had a very modern army. My father’s army, they were all killed and finally the American army bombed Hiroshima. I spent my young life with only my mother. I don’t have the meaning of family.”
I saw his anger frothing. Inability to accept, pain, anger. But he used these somewhat, lucky for him.
“Yohji had once said to me that he was always fascinated by seeing women from the back – departing. Was that still true?”
“Please don’t leave! Don’t leave! That is the most important thing in my imagination,” Yohji replied. “Because I love women. Especially I love strong women. Independent women.”
“The designer also loves handwork, and looking at strokes of paint coloured on the clothes, I could see that some of this work was closer in spirit to couture, than to ready-to-wear.”
“I’m stupid,” said Yohji. “I’m still making clothing in my company. The staff – using their fingers. Other companies are using computers. I keep on doing everything by hand. And from hands come emotion, inspiration, sensitivity. I still believe in that. So until the end, I will keep making everything by hand.”
To answer myself—— just do it. It was the best choice and what the soul wanted.
It is dad’s birthday today. I found it hard to say happy birthday.
“When I was young and studying cinema,” South Korean director Bong Joon-ho said in his Oscars acceptance speech for best director for his film Parasite, which also won best picture, on Sunday, “there was a saying that I carved deep into my heart, which is, ‘The most personal is the most creative’”—a quote he attributed to Martin Scorsese. But it wasn’t just Bong’s vision that brought Parasite to the screen; it was the institutional power of one of the most powerful Korean companies—and the personal quest of a single woman inside it.”
I liked 3 things about it.
The most personal
The most creative
personal quest of a single woman inside it
Personal quest inside is important. Its intention and intention when pure, is powerful. I think back on myself.
I was personal in all of my food writings for work and on a national newspaper. How is that possible? To write about your own feelings in stories on food? But that was what I did even if I doubted if my own personal feelings mattered.
And this paragraph sort of put things in perspective, or gave new meaning to “creative”.
When it gets personal, you are letting truth and honesty out of a human being’s experience. That is real.
Real is gold.
And it hits another one, yes, resonance, and with that, inspiring and sending sparks out of another human being.
We experience connectedness in this personal sharing.
Coming back to the point, “ “To do anything creative, you have to have a soft touch.””
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