Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,
YVES SAINT LAURENTI 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 tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.
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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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Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.
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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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You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.
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[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.
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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
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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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Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
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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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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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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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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
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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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