I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
YVES SAINT LAURENTElegance and beauty have been banished.
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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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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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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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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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Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society’s struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
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To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.
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Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l’homme qu’elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n’ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.
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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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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
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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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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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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.
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I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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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Elegance and beauty have been banished.
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Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan.
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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.
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