Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashions 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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.
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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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?
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