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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!
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The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
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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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