What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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 find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven’t had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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