It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.
YVES SAINT LAURENTI’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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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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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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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.
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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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I’m so secluded. Very alone.
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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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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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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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Dressing is a way of life.
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
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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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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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Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.
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