Part memoir, part design philosophy, part refusal to explain himself too neatly.

My Dear Bomb is Yohji Yamamoto thinking out loud about clothes, women, work, failure, beauty, memory, and the business of becoming a public figure while remaining fundamentally private. Written after the collapse and reconstruction of his company, it has the feel of an artist taking stock without ever becoming tidy about it.

This is an intimate and restless book: fragments, anecdotes, meditations, and drawings that move between autobiography and aesthetic manifesto. Good for readers interested in fashion, certainly, but just as much for anyone drawn to the inner weather of people who build entire worlds out of instinct.

This edition was published by Ludion in 2011. Co-authored with Ai Mitsuda, it is an illustrated autobiographical work rather than a conventional fashion monograph. First edition, in great condition.