I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
YVES SAINT LAURENTDressing 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’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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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 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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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 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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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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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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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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A woman’s wardrobe shouldn’t change every six months.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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