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After graduating from Keio University with a law degree, Yohji Yamamoto realised he wasn’t interested in the law.
“I didn’t want to join the ordinary society,” he says. “So I told my mother after graduation … ‘I want to help you.’”
She agreed to let him work at her dressmaking shop in Kabukicho, an entertainment district in Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward, and learn from the…