Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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 adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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 really like knees.
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Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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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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