Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
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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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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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For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around.
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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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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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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There are women who have completely transformed my view of 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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There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.
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