Yohji Yamamoto was born in 1943 and graduated from law school in 1966. Right after he realized that being part of the ordinary society and a law career was not for him. Instead, he decided to support the family tailoring business of his widowed mother who was a dressmaker, and agreed under one condition: a fashion college degree which he completed in 1969 at Bunka Fashion College Tokyo, awarded with two fashion prices and a scholarship in Paris.
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