France awards fashion designer Yamamoto

PARIS, France - Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto (front R), pictured with his mother Fumi, after receiving the Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters, France's top honor for arts, from the French culture ministry in Paris on Oct. 3, 2011.

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