Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing is a way of life.
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.
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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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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