Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.
YVES SAINT LAURENTFinding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.
More Yves Saint Laurent Quotes
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A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
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I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it’s worth I did it.
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Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.
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Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
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I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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 prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
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I don’t at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.
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What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.
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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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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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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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