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.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I was born with a nervous breakdown.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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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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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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Dressing is a way of life.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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