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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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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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For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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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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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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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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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 love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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