I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
YVES SAINT LAURENTA good model can advance fashion by ten years.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won’t come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me–a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.
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If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.
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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
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