To Yohji Yamamoto, the dress maker, failure is important. ‘Failure makes strong motivation for next collection.’

Yamamoto speaks good English, but not perfect English, hence the sentence above being incorrect grammatically.

Yamamoto believes that if he believes a collection is a success, then that is not good (the contrary nature of the man surfaces). If this happens, then he believes he has lost his way ‘and you need to come back to yourself for a long time.’

Yamamoto reckons ‘we need education about beauty.’

BDW