Yohji Yamamoto (山本 耀司 Yamamoto Yōji, born in 1943) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Distinctive features of the style of clothes from Yohji Yamamoto are unisex, black color, closed and free cut, functionality and, of course, quality.

Yohji Yamamoto was born in Tokyo at the height of the Second World War. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki plunged Japan into mourning. His father, who was taken to the army by force, died in war. Those events greatly affected the mother of the designer — Fumi — who has been wearing a mourning black color of clothes for the rest of her life then. Fumi worked as a dressmaker for 16 hours a day in her little shop. While watching her work, Yohji became fond of drawing various models of clothes, cutting and sewing it.