Japanese Fashion Quotes

The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.

Well, I've never been to Japan so I couldn't say. I do know that we have a bit of a following there however.

In terms of the culture, you can't beat Japan. It's my favourite country. It's one of those places you never want to leave. I love the people, I love the food, and I love their fashion because they're not afraid to experiment.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

I loved my time in Japan, and I am grateful to have had the chance to live in Japan and embrace the Japanese culture.

I've always been inspired by Japanese style.

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

In Asia, Free People, along with World Co., Ltd. of Japan, will launch a shop in Shinjuku and a freestanding store and wholesale showroom in Harajuku.

I love the ath-leisure look, but I'm also super inspired by anime, and I love Japanese culture so much.

Tokyo style is so specific. And I'm a very big fan of their history. It's pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect to see the wild style that comes out of Japan, but I think, traditionally, the style is very simple.

I've been wearing kimono for several years, and armor.

I like wearing the things from Japan, because they usually get a different collection than we do.

What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

I was the last of the British style that was a big thing in Japan.

There's something about the U.S. and Japan: two opposite ends of the planet, two completely different languages, and yet, especially in menswear, they share this kind of idealized way of dressing that is so close to what we do in America.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

I want to go to Japan. I feel like they love blonde girls.

Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.