I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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 me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
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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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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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